meeting of the minds
"meeting-of-the-minds" is a 17-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“meeting of the minds” is uncommon English (outside the top frequency list), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency English
- 20
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - An agreement, especially one resulting from a gathering in which discussion or negotiation took place.
Corpus desk
Index EN-meeting-of-the-minds · meeting of the minds · English
meeting of the minds · unranked · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-UNRANKED Unranked
- LEN-MEGA 20 letters
- VOW-6 6 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-THIN "M" thin
- PHOTO-UNK Peer pending
Read with this headword: Spelling guide for this pattern
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.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | meeting of the minds |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| Letters | 20 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Long-tail rank of “meeting of the minds” in English
Rare enough to double-check
meeting of the minds is uncommon English outside the top frequency list, classed as anoun. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
meeting of the minds doesn't appear in our generated misspelling index, typically a sign the spelling maps closely to how the word sounds. This headword has no recorded confusable partner, a sign it's visually distinctive enough not to be mixed up with another word.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct English form is meeting of the minds, spelled M-E-E-T-I-N-G- -O-F- -T-H-E- -M-I-N-D-S.
Definition
- 1An agreement, especially one resulting from a gathering in which discussion or negotiation took place.
- 2Synonym of consensus ad idem (“agreement about the terms and subject matter of a contract between all involved parties”).
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how meeting of the minds appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
[E]xhausted negotiators pored over maps and drafts of a proposed agreement in smoke-filled Cairo hotel rooms, until the morning of the third day, when Israeli Foreign Minister Shimon Peres proclaimed that the two sides had "reached a meeting of the minds."
[T]he market seems to believe that the leaders have had a meeting of the minds and won’t fail when the time comes to act.
Definitions, pronunciation, and etymology for this entry are drawn from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org structured extract (CC BY-SA). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.