mima
\mi.ma\
The verdict
“mima” is uncommon French (frequency #77,709 among 5,038 “M” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #77,709
- frequency rank, French
- 5,038
- “M” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Troisième personne du singulier du passé simple de mimer.
Corpus desk
Index FR-mima · mima · French
mima · rank #77,709 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #77,709
- LEN-MID 4 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,038
- PHOTO-FINISH minium
Nearest frequency peer: minium (+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 « mima »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- membership
membership
22,296 corpus weight
- mima
mima
22,292 corpus weight
- minium
minium
22,291 corpus weight
- Minna
Minna
22,290 corpus weight
- minne
minne
22,289 corpus weight
- Miossec
Miossec
22,288 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « mima » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | mima |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \mi.ma\ |
| Letters | 4 |
| Frequency rank | #77,709 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « mima » en français
Rare enough to double-check
mima is uncommon French at frequency #77,709 among 5,038 “M” headwords, classed as averb, transcribed \mi.ma\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Troisième personne du singulier du passé simple de mimer.".
mima doesn't appear in our generated misspelling index, suggesting the orthography follows predictable French patterns. This headword has no recorded confusable partner, which typically means the spelling is too distinctive to be mistaken for another word.
This entry carries no recorded etymology, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. The correct French form is mima, spelled M-I-M-A.
Definition
- 1Troisième personne du singulier du passé simple de mimer.
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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