mountain
\ˈmaʊn.tn̩\
The verdict
“mountain” has 11 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #15,447. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #15,447
- frequency rank, French
- 5,038
- “M” headwords
- 11
- tracked misspellings
- 3
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Montagne.
Corpus desk
Index FR-mountain · mountain · French
mountain · rank #15,447 · 11 variants · 3 confusables
- FREQ-MID #15,447
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-LOW 3 pairs
- VAR-MID 11 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,038
- PHOTO-FINISH montrée
Nearest frequency peer: montrée (-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 « mountain »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- minier
minier
84,557 corpus weight
- minières
minières
84,556 corpus weight
- montrée
montrée
84,555 corpus weight
- mountain
mountain
84,554 corpus weight
- méditer
méditer
84,553 corpus weight
- navy
navy
84,552 corpus weight
What this shows « mountain » 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 | mountain |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ˈmaʊn.tn̩\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #15,447 |
| Misspellings tracked | 11 |
| Confusable pairs | 3 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « mountain »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 11 spelling variants around mountain (IPA \ˈmaʊn.tn̩\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #15,447 among 5,038 “M” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Montagne.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 11 likely wrong-spelling variants for mountain, with forms such as "mmountain", "monutain", and "mounatin". 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 3 confusable-pair relationships, "montait", "mondain", "montais", since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
No borrowing history is documented for this entry, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. The correct French form is mountain, spelled M-O-U-N-T-A-I-N.
Definition
- 1Montagne.
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- mmountain
- monutain
- mounatin
- mounntain
- mountainn
- mountani
- mountian
- mounttain
- moutnain
- muontain
- omuntain
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of mountain - measured in single-character edits (insert, delete, or substitute a letter). Larger bars are easier to catch; one-edit slips are the sneakiest.
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
Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "mountain", not the corpus desk frequency band.
Same letter count
Frequency-ranked French headwords with 8 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (11 here; floor ≥5).