mignons

\mi.ɲɔ̃\

/\mi.ɲɔ̃\/ adj

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The verdict

“mignons” has 11 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #15,938. The variants make it a useful spelling check.

#15,938
frequency rank, French
5,038
“M” headwords
11
tracked misspellings
6
confusable pairs

According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Masculin pluriel de mignon.

Corpus desk

Index FR-mignons · mignons · French

mignons · rank #15,938 · 11 variants · 6 confusables

  • FREQ-MID #15,938
  • LEN-LONG 7 letters
  • VOW-2 2 vowels
  • CONFUS-MID 6 pairs
  • VAR-MID 11 variants
  • BOOK-DENSE 5,038
  • PHOTO-FINISH menacées

Nearest frequency peer: menacées (-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.

Pairs de rang près de l'aimant d'erreurs « mignons »

Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin

corpus weight

What this shows « mignons » siège parmi ces pairs FrequencyWords; la profondeur des fautes est suivie à part dans le graphique d'édition.

Source FrequencyWords open word-frequency list As of September 3, 2026

Visual similarity to commonly confused words

How many letter changes separate each confused pair (Levenshtein distance, normalized).

mignons vs minois
71% similar
mignons vs mignon
86% similar
mignons vs menons
71% similar

Source: PlainSpell confusable corpus (Wiktionary, CC BY-SA).

Key facts for mignons
PropertyValue
Headwordmignons
LanguageFrench
Part of speechAdjective
IPA\mi.ɲɔ̃\
Letters7
Frequency rank#15,938
Misspellings tracked11
Confusable pairs6
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « mignons »

De gauche à droite: le peu qui porte la parole quotidienne, puis la longue queue quasi invisible.mignonsse place ici:

#1#100#1K#10K#100K
← used constantlyrarely used →

L'axe est logarithmique: chaque tic marque environ dix fois moins de fréquence. Dans la même bande de rareté figurent « menacées » (#15,937), « minces » (#15,939), « Mayer » (#15,936). Parmi 5,038 lemmes en « M », « mignons » est au #15,938. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

A misspelling magnet

The generator records 11 spelling variants around mignons (IPA \mi.ɲɔ̃\), anadjective. Corpus frequency is #15,938 among 5,038 “M” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Masculin pluriel de mignon.".

Our generated misspelling index lists 11 likely wrong-spelling variants for mignons, with forms such as "imgnons", "mginons", and "miggnons". Every one of these variants traces to a single-character edit -- an added or dropped letter, a swapped consonant, or a vowel swap -- the kind of slip a spell-checker is built to catch. It also participates in 6 confusable-pair relationships, "minois", "mignon", "menons", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.

Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, so its spelling is best explained by sound-to-letter mapping rather than etymology. The correct French form is mignons, spelled M-I-G-N-O-N-S.

Definition

  1. 1
    Masculin pluriel de mignon.

Recorded use

Wiktionary example

These source excerpts show how mignons appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.

  1. Ses bras, à la fois mignons et potelés, sortaient de manches à sabots fourrées de dentelles.

Common misspellings

Also misspelled as:

  • imgnons
  • mginons
  • miggnons
  • mignnons
  • mignnos
  • mignonns
  • mignonss
  • mignosn
  • migonns
  • mingons
  • mmignons

Misspelling Pattern Breakdown

How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of mignons - counted as single-character edits (an insertion, a deletion, or a substituted letter). The larger the bar, the easier the typo is to spot; one-edit slips are the ones that sneak past readers.

imgnons2mginons2miggnons1mignnons1mignnos2mignonns1mignonss1mignosn2
Edit distance from "mignons"

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.

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "mignons"?
"mignons" is spelled M-I-G-N-O-N-S. The IPA pronunciation is \mi.ɲɔ̃\.
What does "mignons" mean?
As an adjective, "mignons" means: Masculin pluriel de mignon.
What words are commonly confused with "mignons"?
"mignons" is commonly confused with "minois", "mignon", "menons". These words look or sound similar but have different meanings. PlainSpell provides detailed comparisons for each pair.
How do you pronounce "mignons"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "mignons" is \mi.ɲɔ̃\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "mignons" come from?
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Similar French words by spelling shape

Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "mignons", not the corpus desk frequency band.

Same letter count

Frequency-ranked French headwords with 7 letters (nearest by frequency rank).

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Similar misspelling depth

Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (11 here; floor ≥5).

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Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org) Structured Wiktionary extract

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list