monument
Letters
8 characters
Frequency Rank
#4,782
in French word usage
Misspellings
12
tracked variants
Confusables
7
similar word pairs
monument is aFrenchnoun. It means: Ouvrage d’architecture et de sculpture fait pour transmettre à la postérité la mémoire de quelque personne illustre ou de quelque événement important. Pronounced \mɔ.ny.mɑ̃\. It ranks #4,782 in French word frequency. Often confused with moquent and movement.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | monument |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \mɔ.ny.mɑ̃\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #4,782 |
| Misspellings tracked | 12 |
| Confusable pairs | 7 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for monument is 8 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \mɔ.ny.mɑ̃\. Corpus data places it at rank #4,782 in overall French word frequency, indicating it appears regularly in written and spoken text.Wiktionary records 8 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 12 documented wrong-spelling variants for monument, with forms such as "mmonument", "mnoument", and "monmuent". Each variant represents a distinct typo pattern that appears often enough in corpora to be worth flagging, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution.It also participates in 7 confusable-pair relationships, "moquent", "movement", "monuments", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. For readers arriving here from a spelling check, the authoritative guidance is: the correct French form is monument, spelled M-O-N-U-M-E-N-T, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Ouvrage d’architecture et de sculpture fait pour transmettre à la postérité la mémoire de quelque personne illustre ou de quelque événement important.
- 2Tout ce qui consacre un souvenir ; mémorial.
- 3Édifice public ou particulier qui impose par sa grandeur ou par son ancienneté. → voir monument historique.
- 4Restes archéologiques.
- 5Tombeau.
- 6Ouvrage durable de littérature, de sciences et d’arts.
- 7Personne qui a créé une œuvre très importante.
- 8Exemple archétypique, jusqu’à l’absurde.
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: mmonument,mnoument,monmuent,monnument,monuemnt,monumennt,monumentt,monumetn,monumment,monumnet,mounment,omnument
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
Relative frequency of common misspelling types for monument
Misspelling Variants of "monument"
Frequency rank: #4,782 in French
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Nearby French words
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