menos
\me.nos\
The verdict
“menos” is uncommon French (frequency #87,837 among 5,038 “M” headwords), classed as an adverb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #87,837
- frequency rank, French
- 5,038
- “M” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Moins.
Corpus desk
Index FR-menos · menos · French
menos · rank #87,837 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #87,837
- LEN-MID 5 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,038
- PHOTO-FINISH Mennecy
Nearest frequency peer: Mennecy (-1 rank slots)
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.
Rangs de longue queue près de « menos »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- Mennecy
Mennecy
12,165 corpus weight
- menos
menos
12,164 corpus weight
- Merv
Merv
12,163 corpus weight
- messianisme
messianisme
12,162 corpus weight
- mesureur
mesureur
12,161 corpus weight
- meulière
meulière
12,160 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « menos » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | menos |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adverb |
| IPA | \me.nos\ |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #87,837 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « menos » en français
Rare enough to double-check
menos is uncommon French at frequency #87,837 among 5,038 “M” headwords, classed as anadverb, transcribed \me.nos\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Moins.".
We couldn't generate a plausible misspelling set for menos, suggesting the orthography follows predictable French patterns. This entry stands alone in our confusable dataset, a sign it's visually distinctive enough not to be mixed up with another word.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct French form is menos, spelled M-E-N-O-S.
Definition
- 1Moins.
Antonyms
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 French corpus, MIT). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.
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