minuet
"minuet" is a 6-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“minuet” is uncommon English (frequency #62,325 among 4,057 “M” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #62,325
- frequency rank, English
- 4,057
- “M” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - A slow graceful dance consisting of a coupé, a high step, and a balance.
Corpus desk
Index EN-minuet · minuet · English
minuet · rank #62,325 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #62,325
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 4,057
- PHOTO-FINISH minter
Nearest frequency peer: minter (-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.
Long-tail ranks near “minuet”
Sparse band: bars invert rank so rarer forms read shorter
- methylene
methylene
37,683 corpus weight
- minaret
minaret
37,679 corpus weight
- minter
minter
37,677 corpus weight
- minuet
minuet
37,676 corpus weight
- misadventure
misadventure
37,675 corpus weight
- Mishima
Mishima
37,674 corpus weight
What this shows Long-tail view: where “minuet” sits against similarly uncommon English ranks.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | minuet |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #62,325 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Long-tail rank of “minuet” in English
Rare enough to double-check
minuet is uncommon English at frequency #62,325 among 4,057 “M” headwords, classed as anoun. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 4 senses are on record.
The misspelling generator found no plausible variants for minuet, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, which typically means the spelling is too distinctive to be mistaken for another word.
Etymologically, the entry records: From French menuet, from menu (“small”) + -et (“diminutive”), from Latin minutus (“very small”). The correct English form is minuet, spelled M-I-N-U-E-T.
Definition
- 1A slow graceful dance consisting of a coupé, a high step, and a balance.
- 2A tune or air to regulate the movements of the minuet dance: it has the dance form, and is commonly in 3/4, sometimes 3/8, measure.
- 3A complete short musical composition inspired by and conforming to many formal characteristics of the traditional musical accompaniment to the dance of same name.
- 4A movement which is part of a longer musical composition such as a suite, sonata, or symphony which is inspired by and conforming to formal characteristics of the dance of same name.
Etymology
From French menuet, from menu (“small”) + -et (“diminutive”), from Latin minutus (“very small”).
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 English corpus, MIT). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.
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