monumental
\mɔ.ny.mɑ̃.tal\
The verdict
“monumental” has 15 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #19,604. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #19,604
- frequency rank, French
- 5,038
- “M” headwords
- 15
- tracked misspellings
- 4
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Relatif aux monuments.
Corpus desk
Index FR-monumental · monumental · French
monumental · rank #19,604 · 15 variants · 4 confusables
- FREQ-MID #19,604
- LEN-MEGA 10 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 4 pairs
- VAR-HIGH 15 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,038
- PHOTO-FINISH mollet
Nearest frequency peer: mollet (-1 rank slots)
Desk codes from Wiktionary headword shape, FrequencyWords rank tier, confusable-pair count, generated misspelling depth, letter-cohort book size, and photo-finish peer. Not a difficulty grade.
Pairs de rang près de l'aimant d'erreurs « monumental »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- mill
mill
80,399 corpus weight
- mollet
mollet
80,398 corpus weight
- monumental
monumental
80,397 corpus weight
- mourra
mourra
80,396 corpus weight
- mériterait
mériterait
80,395 corpus weight
- métrique
métrique
80,394 corpus weight
What this shows « monumental » siège parmi ces pairs FrequencyWords; la profondeur des fautes est suivie à part dans le graphique d'édition.
Visual similarity to commonly confused words
How many letter changes separate each confused pair (Levenshtein distance, normalized).
Source: PlainSpell confusable corpus (Wiktionary, CC BY-SA).
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | monumental |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | \mɔ.ny.mɑ̃.tal\ |
| Letters | 10 |
| Frequency rank | #19,604 |
| Misspellings tracked | 15 |
| Confusable pairs | 4 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « monumental »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 15 spelling variants around monumental (IPA \mɔ.ny.mɑ̃.tal\), anadjective. Corpus frequency is #19,604 among 5,038 “M” headwords. Wiktionary lists 3 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 15 likely wrong-spelling variants for monumental, with forms such as "mmonumental", "mnoumental", and "monmuental". Each variant is a distinct typo pattern an edit-distance generator flags, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution. It also participates in 4 confusable-pair relationships, "monuments", "monumentale", "monumentales", and more, since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
This entry's etymology isn't recorded, so its spelling is best explained by sound-to-letter mapping rather than etymology. The correct French form is monumental, spelled M-O-N-U-M-E-N-T-A-L.
Definition
- 1Relatif aux monuments.
- 2Qui a rapport, qui est propre aux monuments, qui est de la nature des monuments.
- 3Qui est gigantesque, colossal.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how monumental appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Je n’ai jusqu’ici traité que de l’écriture hiéroglyphique monumentale, la plus connue parce que la plus ancienne et, bien sûr, la plus spectaculaire, mais celle-ci a au cours des siècles connu une évolution formelle qui l’a menée vers deux stades visuellement très différenciés : l’écriture hiératique et l’écriture démotique.
Et, remettant son épée dans le fourreau, il reprit sa monumentale immobilité.
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- mmonumental
- mnoumental
- monmuental
- monnumental
- monuemntal
- monumenatl
- monumenntal
- monumentall
- monumentla
- monumenttal
- monumetnal
- monummental
- monumnetal
- mounmental
- omnumental
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of monumental - counted as single-character edits (an insertion, a deletion, or a substituted letter). The larger the bar, the easier the typo is to spot; one-edit slips are the ones that sneak past readers.
Definitions, pronunciation, and etymology for this entry are drawn from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org structured extract (CC BY-SA); frequency ordering uses the FrequencyWords open word-frequency list (2018 French corpus, MIT). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.
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Similar French words by spelling shape
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Same letter count
Frequency-ranked French headwords with 10 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
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Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (15 here; floor ≥5).