mineral
min·eral/ˈmɪn.ə.ɹəl/noun, adjective
mineral is spelled M-I-N-E-R-A-L, 2 syllables: min·eral. The wrong spelling people search most is minerial: about 20 Bing searches a month in the United States (September 2025 to August 2026), about 1 in 244 of all searches for the word. Mineral is a noun meaning “Any naturally occurring solid material that has a (more or less) definite chemical composition and…”. The plural of mineral is minerals.
How many letters and syllables are in mineral?
| Letters | 7: M-I-N-E-R-A-L |
|---|---|
| Syllables | 2: min·eral |
| In writing | 11 times per million words; the 6,784th most frequent word form |
| Wrong spellings searched | 1; the most searched, minerial, about 20 Bing searches a month (all of them) |
| Same letters |
Sources: letters and syllables from the English Wiktionary's hyphenation or pronunciation; written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media); Bing searches in the United States: the average month from September 2025 to August 2026 (Microsoft Advertising keyword data through DataForSEO, read September 30, 2026); rhymes and same-letter words are computed by PlainSpell from its own word list.
How do you spell mineral?
Mineral is spelled M-I-N-E-R-A-L. One wrong spelling is searched or written often enough to measure; together they are about 1 in 244 of the searches for mineral in either form.
Bing searches in the United States: the average month from September 2025 to August 2026 (Microsoft Advertising keyword data through DataForSEO, read September 30, 2026). Wrong spellings are taken from Wiktionary entries tagged "misspelling" and its obsolete or nonstandard forms, Wikipedia's Lists of common misspellings and the codespell dictionary, then measured. The proofreader's marks show the change that corrects each one.
How common is mineral?
Mineral appears 11 times per million words in written English, the 6,784th most frequent word form in the list.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).
How do you pronounce mineral?
- UK /ˈmɪn.ə.ɹəl/
- UK /ˈmɪn.ɹəl/
- US /ˈmɪn.ə.ɹəl/
Mineral has 2 syllables, split min·eral in writing.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Recordings: En-us-mineral.ogg, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).
What rhymes with mineral?
No other word on PlainSpell ends in the same sounds as mineral (/ɪnəɹəl/).
Spelled with the same letters in another order: marline.
Computed by PlainSpell from the pronunciations in the English Wiktionary (dump of September 2, 2026): a rhyme shares every sound from the last stressed vowel to the end; ordered by written frequency (wordfreq 3.1).
Forms of mineral
- minerals plural
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
What does mineral mean?
The meanings the English Wiktionary records, quoted as written there (source below).
noun
- 1
Any naturally occurring solid material that has a (more or less) definite chemical composition and characteristic physical properties; especially, an inorganic and crystalline one.
- 2
Any inorganic material (as distinguished from animal or vegetable).
- 3
Any inorganic element that is essential to nutrition.
- 4
UKMineral water.
- 5
IrelandinformalA soft drink, particularly a single serve bottle or can.
- 6
obsoleteA mine or mineral deposit.
- 7
obsoleteA poisonous or dangerous substance.
adjective
- 1
of, related to, or containing minerals
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
Mineral in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese
In the sense in geology:
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Translations are Wiktionary's, by sense; a linked word has its own PlainSpell page.
Where does mineral come from?
From Middle English mineral, borrowed from Old French mineral, (French minéral), from Medieval Latin minerale, from minera (“ore”), probably ultimately derived from Latin mina (“ore, mine”).
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).