minutes
/ˈmɪnɪts/noun, verb
minutes is spelled M-I-N-U-T-E-S. The wrong spelling people search most is mintues: about 140 Bing searches a month in the United States (September 2025 to August 2026), about 1 in 116 of all searches for the word. Minutes is a noun meaning “The official notes kept during a meeting”.
How many letters and syllables are in minutes?
| Letters | 7: M-I-N-U-T-E-S |
|---|---|
| Syllables | 2 (from its American pronunciation) |
| In writing | 204 times per million words; the 494th most frequent word form |
| Wrong spellings searched | 2; the most searched, mintues, about 140 Bing searches a month (all of them) |
Sources: letters and syllables from the English Wiktionary's hyphenation or pronunciation and the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary; 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).
How do you spell minutes?
Minutes is spelled M-I-N-U-T-E-S. 2 wrong spellings are searched or written often enough to measure; together they are about 1 in 82 of the searches for minutes 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 minutes?
Minutes appears 204 times per million words in written English, the 494th 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 minutes?
- /ˈmɪnɪts/
Minutes has 2 syllables (counted from its American pronunciation in the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary).
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Recordings: En-us-minutes.ogg, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).
What does minutes mean?
The meanings the English Wiktionary records, quoted as written there (source below).
noun
- 1
The official notes kept during a meeting.
- 2
plural of minute
verb
- 1
third-person singular simple present indicative of minute
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
Minutes in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese
In the sense the official notes kept during a meeting:
| Language | Words |
|---|---|
| French | procès-verbal |
| German | Protokoll, Mitschrift, Niederschrift |
| Portuguese | ata |
| Spanish | acta |
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.