menuet
\mə.nɥɛ\
The verdict
“menuet” is uncommon French (frequency #63,922 among 5,038 “M” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #63,922
- frequency rank, French
- 5,038
- “M” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Air à danser, dont la mesure se bat à trois temps, dans lequel il y a un repos de quatre en quatre mesures et qui est composé de deux reprises.
Corpus desk
Index FR-menuet · menuet · French
menuet · rank #63,922 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #63,922
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,038
- PHOTO-FINISH memoriam
Nearest frequency peer: memoriam (-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 « menuet »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- medico
medico
36,082 corpus weight
- meek
meek
36,081 corpus weight
- memoriam
memoriam
36,080 corpus weight
- menuet
menuet
36,079 corpus weight
- Mercie
Mercie
36,078 corpus weight
- Messer
Messer
36,077 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « menuet » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | menuet |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \mə.nɥɛ\ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #63,922 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « menuet » en français
Rare enough to double-check
menuet is uncommon French at frequency #63,922 among 5,038 “M” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \mə.nɥɛ\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 3 senses are on record.
No generated misspelling entries exist for menuet in our index, a sign its spelling follows regular French conventions. This entry stands alone in our confusable dataset, a sign it's visually distinctive enough not to be mixed up with another word.
No borrowing history is documented for this entry, so its spelling is best explained by sound-to-letter mapping rather than etymology. The correct French form is menuet, spelled M-E-N-U-E-T.
Definition
- 1Air à danser, dont la mesure se bat à trois temps, dans lequel il y a un repos de quatre en quatre mesures et qui est composé de deux reprises.
- 2Danse adaptée à cet air.
- 3Morceau qui vient après l’andante dans une symphonie ou un quatuor.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how menuet appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Jouer un menuet.
Air de menuet.
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 French corpus, MIT). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.
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