# minute

> English word · Noun · IPA /ˈmɪnɪt/ · frequency rank #1,124

## Definitions
1. A unit of time which is one sixtieth of an hour (sixty seconds).
2. A short but unspecified time period.
3. A unit of angle equal to one-sixtieth of a degree.
4. A (usually formal) written record of a meeting or a part of a meeting.
5. A unit of purchase on a telephone or other similar network, especially a cell phone network, roughly equivalent in gross form to sixty seconds' use of the network.
6. A point in time; a moment.
7. A nautical or a geographic mile.
8. An old coin, a half farthing.
9. A very small part of anything, or anything very small; a jot; a whit.
10. A fixed part of a module.
11. A while or a long unspecified period of time.

## Etymology
From Middle English mynute, minute, mynet, from Old French minute, from Medieval Latin minūta (“60th of an hour; note”). Doublet of menu and menudo.

## Easily confused with
- **mute** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/minute-vs-mute)
- **mite** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/minute-vs-mite)
- **monte** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/minute-vs-monte)
- **misuse** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/minute-vs-misuse)
- **minutes** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/minute-vs-minutes)
- **minutiae** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/minute-vs-minutiae)
- **mine** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/mine-vs-minute)
- **mint** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/mint-vs-minute)
- **minus** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/minus-vs-minute)
- **mince** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/mince-vs-minute)
- **mints** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/mints-vs-minute)
- **minty** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/minty-vs-minute)
- **Minot** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/minot-vs-minute)
- **Minnie** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/minnie-vs-minute)
- **mingle** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/mingle-vs-minute)
- **manure** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/manure-vs-minute)
- **minted** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/minted-vs-minute)
- **minster** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/minster-vs-minute)

## Common misspellings (8)
`imnute`, `minnute`, `mintue`, `minuet`, `minutte`, `miunte`, `mminute`, `mniute`

## Source
Compiled from Wiktionary via kaikki.org (CC BY-SA). Data vintage: 2026-05-06.
Canonical page: https://plainspell.com/en/word/minute