mignard
\mi.ɲaʁ\
The verdict
“mignard” is uncommon French (frequency #52,829 among 5,038 “M” headwords), classed as an adjective. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #52,829
- frequency rank, French
- 5,038
- “M” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - ou Gracieux, délicat, mignon.
Corpus desk
Index FR-mignard · mignard · French
mignard · rank #52,829 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #52,829
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,038
- PHOTO-FINISH mex
Nearest frequency peer: mex (-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 « mignard »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- messianique
messianique
47,176 corpus weight
- mex
mex
47,173 corpus weight
- mignard
mignard
47,172 corpus weight
- mignot
mignot
47,171 corpus weight
- minent
minent
47,170 corpus weight
- minimalistes
minimalistes
47,169 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « mignard » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | mignard |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | \mi.ɲaʁ\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #52,829 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « mignard » en français
Rare enough to double-check
mignard is uncommon French at frequency #52,829 among 5,038 “M” headwords, classed as anadjective, transcribed \mi.ɲaʁ\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
Zero misspellings are on record for mignard in our index, suggesting the orthography follows predictable French patterns. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
No documented word history exists for this headword, so any spelling logic here comes from how the word's sounds map to letters, not a documented origin story. The correct French form is mignard, spelled M-I-G-N-A-R-D.
Definition
- 1ou Gracieux, délicat, mignon.
- 2Qui a de la gentillesse et de l’afféterie.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how mignard appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Pourquoi fuis-tu mignarde Si je suis près de touai, Quand tes yeux je regarde Je me perds dedans mouai, Car tes perfections Changent mes actions.— (Thoinot Arbeau, Belle qui tiens ma vie dans Orchésographie, 1589)
Les amours plus mignards à nos rames se lient
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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