photomontage
\fo.to.mɔ̃.taʒ\
The verdict
“photomontage” is uncommon French (frequency #58,160 among 248,534 “P” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #58,160
- frequency rank, French
- 248,534
- “P” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - Assemblage de photographies par collage ou par logiciel donnant d’une photo un aspect différent, par incorporation d’une ou plusieurs parties ou de la totalité d’une autre photo et permettant toute...
Corpus desk
Index FR-photomontage · photomontage · French
photomontage · rank #58,160 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #58,160
- LEN-MEGA 12 letters
- VOW-5 5 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 248,534
- PHOTO-FINISH phy
Nearest frequency peer: phy (+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.
Frequency neighbourhood for “photomontage”
Lower corpus rank = more everyday usage (inverted bar length for readability)
- petty
petty
41,844 corpus weight
- philanthrop…
philanthropiques
41,843 corpus weight
- photomontage
photomontage
41,841 corpus weight
- phy
phy
41,840 corpus weight
- phénol
phénol
41,839 corpus weight
- Phœnix
Phœnix
41,838 corpus weight
What this shows Bars show where “photomontage” sits against the nearest ranked French headwords in the FrequencyWords band, not a reprint of letter-browse containment.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | photomontage |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \fo.to.mɔ̃.taʒ\ |
| Letters | 12 |
| Frequency rank | #58,160 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “photomontage” sits in French frequency
Rare enough to double-check
photomontage is uncommon French at frequency #58,160 among 248,534 “P” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \fo.to.mɔ̃.taʒ\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Assemblage de photographies par collage ou par logiciel donnant d’une photo un aspect différent, par incorporation d’une ou plusieurs parties ou de la totalité d’une autre photo et permettant toute...".
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for photomontage, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. Our dataset records no confusable match here, suggesting its spelling stands apart enough that readers rarely confuse it with something else.
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 photomontage, spelled P-H-O-T-O-M-O-N-T-A-G-E.
Definition
- 1Assemblage de photographies par collage ou par logiciel donnant d’une photo un aspect différent, par incorporation d’une ou plusieurs parties ou de la totalité d’une autre photo et permettant toutes retouches et trucages.
This word in other languages
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 "photomontage", not the corpus desk frequency band.
Same letter count
Frequency-ranked French headwords with 12 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Data Source
Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Word ordering uses an open word-frequency list; misspelling variants are generated by edit-distance from the correct headword.