menuet

/\mə.nɥɛ\/ noun

Letters

6 characters

Frequency Rank

#63,922

in French word usage

Misspellings

0

tracked variants

Confusables

0

similar word pairs

menuet is aFrenchnoun. It means: 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. Pronounced \mə.nɥɛ\.

Key facts for menuet
PropertyValue
Headwordmenuet
LanguageFrench
Part of speechNoun
IPA\mə.nɥɛ\
Letters6
Frequency rank#63,922
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Frequency rank visualization

Position of menuet in French word frequency (lower rank = more common)

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list

Spelling & Dictionary Insight

The French entry for menuet is 6 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \mə.nɥɛ\. Corpus data places it at rank #63,922 in overall French word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it.Wiktionary records 3 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.

No misspelling variants are generated for menuet in our index, suggesting the orthography follows predictable French patterns.It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.

No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. For readers arriving here from a spelling check, the authoritative guidance is: the correct French form is menuet, spelled M-E-N-U-E-T, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.

Definition

  1. 1
    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.
  2. 2
    Danse adaptée à cet air.
  3. 3
    Morceau qui vient après l’andante dans une symphonie ou un quatuor.

This word in other languages

Frequency rank: #63,922 in French

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "menuet"?
"menuet" is spelled M-E-N-U-E-T. The IPA pronunciation is \mə.nɥɛ\.
What does "menuet" mean?
As a noun, "menuet" means: 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.
How do you pronounce "menuet"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "menuet" is \mə.nɥɛ\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "menuet" come from?
"menuet" is a French word. PlainSpell covers definitions, pronunciations, and spelling data across English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, and German.
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Data Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Word ordering uses an open word-frequency list; misspelling variants are generated by edit-distance from the correct headword.