mignonnette

/\mi.ɲɔ.nɛt\/ noun

Letters

11 characters

Language

French

word origin

Misspellings

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mignonnette is aFrenchnoun. It means: Dentelle simple à réseau fin. Pronounced \mi.ɲɔ.nɛt\.

Key facts for mignonnette
PropertyValue
Headwordmignonnette
LanguageFrench
Part of speechNoun
IPA\mi.ɲɔ.nɛt\
Letters11
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Frequency rank visualization

mignonnette is not present in the top-100,000 ranked French corpus, typical for technical, archaic, or low-frequency vocabulary.

Source: Wordfreq corpus

Spelling & Dictionary Insight

The French entry for mignonnette is 11 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \mi.ɲɔ.nɛt\. It sits outside the most-frequent rank tiers, which is often why uncommon words generate more spelling variants per reader.Wiktionary records 15 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.

No frequent misspelling variants are recorded for mignonnette in our index, suggesting the orthography either follows predictable French patterns or the word is uncommon enough that typo corpora lack signal.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 mignonnette, spelled M-I-G-N-O-N-N-E-T-T-E, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.

Definition

  1. 1
    Dentelle simple à réseau fin.
  2. 2
    Tissu de satinette de coton clair à rayures de couleur, servant à doubler les manches des vêtements masculins.
  3. 3
    Petit clou de tapissier.
  4. 4
    Pois de petite taille.
  5. 5
    Nom vernaculaire des œillets mignardise.
  6. 6
    Nom vernaculaire de plusieurs plantes : la luzerne lupuline, la saxifrage ombreuse, la chicorée sauvage, les résédas.
  7. 7
    Poivre concassé.
  8. 8
    Morceau de viande maigre découpé dans le dos du porc, en tranche de deux cm d’épaisseur. Autre nom de la noisette d’agneau.
  9. 9
    Gravillon rond dont le diamètre ne dépasse pas 10 millimètres.
  10. 10
    Bouteille miniature, contenant généralement environ 5 cL de liqueur ou d’alcool servant à présenter des échantillons.
  11. 11
    Toute petite enveloppe, destinée aux cartes de visite.
  12. 12
    Type d’ampoule électrique de toute petite taille.
  13. 13
    Petit carré de chocolat.
  14. 14
    Appareil fictif.
  15. 15
    Jeune fille mignonne.

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Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "mignonnette"?
"mignonnette" is spelled M-I-G-N-O-N-N-E-T-T-E. The IPA pronunciation is \mi.ɲɔ.nɛt\.
What does "mignonnette" mean?
As a noun, "mignonnette" means: Dentelle simple à réseau fin.
How do you pronounce "mignonnette"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "mignonnette" is \mi.ɲɔ.nɛt\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "mignonnette" come from?
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Data Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Frequency data from Wordfreq. Misspellings derived from Hunspell dictionaries.