menuet
\mə.nɥɛ\
The verdict
“menuet” is uncommon French (frequency #63,922 among 202,672 “M” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #63,922
- frequency rank, French
- 202,672
- “M” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 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.
| 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) |
Where “menuet” sits in French frequency
Rare enough to double-check
menuet is uncommon French at frequency #63,922 among 202,672 “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.
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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Using “menuet”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct French spelling is M-E-N-U-E-T - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
- Say it as \mə.nɥɛ\ (IPA); tap the speaker on the pronunciation badge to hear it where audio exists.
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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.