mignon
/ˈmɪnjɒn/
"mignon" is a 6-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“mignon” has 9 generated spelling variants in the English index at frequency #43,786. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #43,786
- frequency rank, English
- 4,057
- “M” headwords
- 9
- tracked misspellings
- 8
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Small and cute; pretty in a delicate way; dainty.
Corpus desk
Index EN-mignon · mignon · English
mignon · rank #43,786 · 9 variants · 8 confusables
- FREQ-MID #43,786
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 8 pairs
- VAR-MID 9 variants
- BOOK-MID 4,057
- PHOTO-FINISH Mensa
Nearest frequency peer: Mensa (-1 rank slots)
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.
Rank peers near misspelling magnet “mignon”
Same rarity band: useful when a typo lands on a peer headword
- Medway
Medway
56,218 corpus weight
- Mensa
Mensa
56,216 corpus weight
- mignon
mignon
56,215 corpus weight
- Millicent
Millicent
56,214 corpus weight
- milt
milt
56,213 corpus weight
- MLG
MLG
56,212 corpus weight
What this shows “mignon” sits among these FrequencyWords peers; misspelling depth is tracked separately in the edit-distance chart.
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 | mignon |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | /ˈmɪnjɒn/ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #43,786 |
| Misspellings tracked | 9 |
| Confusable pairs | 8 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency seat of misspelling magnet “mignon”
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 9 spelling variants around mignon (IPA /ˈmɪnjɒn/), anadjective. Corpus frequency is #43,786 among 4,057 “M” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Small and cute; pretty in a delicate way; dainty.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 9 likely wrong-spelling variants for mignon, with forms such as "imgnon", "mginon", and "miggnon". Every one of these variants traces to a single-character edit -- an added or dropped letter, a swapped consonant, or a vowel swap -- the kind of slip a spell-checker is built to catch. It also participates in 8 confusable-pair relationships, "mino", "minor", "Minot", and more, a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.
Etymologically, the entry records: From French mignon, from Middle French mignon (“lover, darling, favourite”), from Old French mignon (“dainty, pleasing, gentle, kind”), from Frankish *minnjo (“love, friendship, affection, memory”), from Proto-Germanic *minþijō, *mindijō (“affectionate thou… The correct English form is mignon, spelled M-I-G-N-O-N.
Definition
- 1Small and cute; pretty in a delicate way; dainty.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how mignon appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
"Will you not wear these to-morrow?" said the King, offering one pair to Madame de Merœur; then, turning to her sister, he added, "I only hope yours are small enough for those mignon hands."
It was the deep-blue, dreaming, haughty eyes of "Miladi" that he was bringing back to memory, not the brown mignon face that had been so late close to his in the light of the moon.
Etymology
From French mignon, from Middle French mignon (“lover, darling, favourite”), from Old French mignon (“dainty, pleasing, gentle, kind”), from Frankish *minnjo (“love, friendship, affection, memory”), from Proto-Germanic *minþijō, *mindijō (“affectionate thought, care”), from Proto-Indo-European *men-, *mnā- (“to think”). Cognate with Old High German minnja (“love, care, affection, desire, memory”), Old Saxon minnea (“love”). More at mind. Compare Dutch minnen (“to love”). Doublet of minion.
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- imgnon
- mginon
- miggnon
- mignno
- mignnon
- mignonn
- migonn
- mingon
- mmignon
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of mignon - 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 English corpus, MIT). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.
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Similar English words by spelling shape
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Same letter count
Frequency-ranked English headwords with 6 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (9 here; floor ≥5).