menuaille
The verdict
“menuaille” is uncommon French (outside the top frequency list), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency French
- 9
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Quantité de petites monnaies.
Corpus desk
Index FR-menuaille · menuaille · French
menuaille · unranked · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-UNRANKED Unranked
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-5 5 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-THIN "M" thin
- PHOTO-UNK Peer pending
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.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | menuaille |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| Letters | 9 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « menuaille » en français
Rare enough to double-check
menuaille is uncommon French outside the top frequency list, classed as anoun. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 4 senses are on record.
No generated misspelling entries exist for menuaille in our index, which points to an orthography that plays by predictable French rules. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
This entry carries no recorded etymology, so its spelling is best read as a straightforward mapping from sound to letter. The correct French form is menuaille, spelled M-E-N-U-A-I-L-L-E.
Definition
- 1Quantité de petites monnaies.
- 2Quantité de petits poissons.
- 3Toute sorte de petites choses qu’on met au rebut.
- 4Menu fretin.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how menuaille appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Il a payé en menuaille.
On a mis dans cette matelote beaucoup de menuaille.
Definitions, pronunciation, and etymology for this entry are drawn from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org structured extract (CC BY-SA). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.