minder

Name: minder, English Word Data
Creator: Wiktionary
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noun

By PlainSpell · According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA) · analyzed May 6, 2026

The verdict

“minder” is uncommon English (frequency #57,562 among 36,575 “M” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.

#57,562
frequency rank, English: 36,575
“M” headwords

According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - One who minds, tends, or watches something such as a child, a machine, or cattle; a keeper.

Key facts for minder
Property	Value
Headword	minder
Language	English
Part of speech	Noun
Letters	6
Frequency rank	#57,562
Misspellings tracked	0
Confusable pairs	0
Source	Wiktionary (kaikki.org)

Where “minder” sits in English frequency

Every-word frequency runs from the handful of words we use constantly (left) to the long tail used once in a blue moon (right). minder lands here:

#57,562

#1#100#1K#10K#100K

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Scale is logarithmic (each tick is 10× rarer). Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

Rare enough to double-check

minder is uncommon English at frequency #57,562 among 36,575 “M” headwords, classed as anoun. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 4 senses are on record.

No misspelling variants are generated for minder in our index, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. We don't track a confusable pairing for this entry, which typically means the spelling is too distinctive to be mistaken for another word.

Etymologically, the entry records: From Middle English mynder, mendowre (“one who has a good memory; bears in mind; watches over; a keeper”); equivalent to mind + -er. The correct English form is minder, spelled M-I-N-D-E-R.

Definition

1
One who minds, tends, or watches something such as a child, a machine, or cattle; a keeper.
2
A personal bodyguard.
3
A monitor assigned by the authorities to someone, such as a foreign visitor (to exercise control over their contacts with the populace) or a journalist or someone who is speaking to journalists (to monitor and control what they say).
4
One who is taken care of, such as a pauper child in the care of private person; a ward.

Etymology

From Middle English mynder, mendowre (“one who has a good memory; bears in mind; watches over; a keeper”); equivalent to mind + -er.

Synonyms

protector guardian

This word in other languages

niñera(Español)garde du corps(Français)Betreuer(Deutsch)

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.

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "minder"?

"minder" is spelled M-I-N-D-E-R.

What does "minder" mean?

As a noun, "minder" means: One who minds, tends, or watches something such as a child, a machine, or cattle; a keeper.

What is the origin of the word "minder"?

From Middle English mynder, mendowre (“one who has a good memory; bears in mind; watches over; a keeper”); equivalent to mind + -er. See the full etymology section above for more details.

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Using “minder”

The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.

The one correct English spelling is M-I-N-D-E-R - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
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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.