meunière
\mø.njɛʁ\
The verdict
“meunière” is uncommon French (frequency #79,530 among 5,038 “M” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #79,530
- frequency rank, French
- 5,038
- “M” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Femme dont la profession est de moudre de la farine de céréales ou de l’huile en utilisant un moulin ou une minoterie, qu’elle possède ou qu’elle exploite.
Corpus desk
Index FR-meuniere · meunière · French
meunière · rank #79,530 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #79,530
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-5 5 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,038
- PHOTO-FINISH Mensah
Nearest frequency peer: Mensah (-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 « meunière »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- Mediterrane…
Mediterranean
20,475 corpus weight
- Memnon
Memnon
20,473 corpus weight
- Mensah
Mensah
20,472 corpus weight
- meunière
meunière
20,471 corpus weight
- micropartic…
microparticules
20,468 corpus weight
- Midlands
Midlands
20,467 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « meunière » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | meunière |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \mø.njɛʁ\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #79,530 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « meunière » en français
Rare enough to double-check
meunière is uncommon French at frequency #79,530 among 5,038 “M” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \mø.njɛʁ\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 3 senses are on record.
No generated misspelling entries exist for meunière in our index, since its letter pattern doesn't lend itself to common typo substitutions. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, suggesting its spelling stands apart enough that readers rarely confuse it with something else.
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 meunière, spelled M-E-U-N-I-È-R-E.
Definition
- 1Femme dont la profession est de moudre de la farine de céréales ou de l’huile en utilisant un moulin ou une minoterie, qu’elle possède ou qu’elle exploite.
- 2Épouse d’un meunier.
- 3Nom vernaculaire utilisé pour désigner la mésange bleue.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how meunière appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Au Moulin de Marcy, au Molay-Littry (Calvados), les visiteurs sont souvent accueillis par Agnès Marie, agent du patrimoine, mais aussi meunière.
Cette jolie Mésange doit sa dénomination de Meunière au bleu ou au bleuâtre de sa livrée, couleurs généralement adoptées par les meuniers de la Savoie dans leur parure, ainsi qu'à son habitude de se tenir fréquemment dans le voisinage des moulins, sur les arbres qui bordent l'eau qui les fait moudre.
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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