München
\ˈmʏnçn̩\
The verdict
“München” is uncommon French (frequency #70,052 among 5,038 “M” headwords), classed as a proper noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #70,052
- frequency rank, French
- 5,038
- “M” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Munich.
Corpus desk
Index FR-munchen · München · French
München · rank #70,052 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #70,052
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,038
- PHOTO-FINISH mérovingien
Nearest frequency peer: mérovingien (-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.
Rangs de longue queue près de « München »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- méprisez
méprisez
29,952 corpus weight
- méritera
méritera
29,951 corpus weight
- mérovingien
mérovingien
29,950 corpus weight
- München
München
29,949 corpus weight
- Münster
Münster
29,948 corpus weight
- naka
naka
29,947 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « München » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | München |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| IPA | \ˈmʏnçn̩\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #70,052 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « München » en français
Rare enough to double-check
München is uncommon French at frequency #70,052 among 5,038 “M” headwords, classed as aproper noun, transcribed \ˈmʏnçn̩\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Munich.".
München has no tracked misspelling variants, a sign its spelling follows regular French conventions. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so its spelling is best read as a straightforward mapping from sound to letter. The correct French form is München, spelled M-Ü-N-C-H-E-N.
Definition
- 1Munich.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how München appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
München liegt an der Isar.
Der 1975 in Rosenheim geborene Peter Förster studierte Katholische Theologie in München und Münster. 2007 wurde er zum Priester geweiht und arbeitete zunächst als Kaplan in Wolfratshausen […]
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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