mime
\mim\
The verdict
“mime” has 5 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #25,045. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #25,045
- frequency rank, French
- 5,038
- “M” headwords
- 5
- tracked misspellings
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Genre théâtral dont les expressions principales sont l’attitude, le geste et la mimique.
Corpus desk
Index FR-mime · mime · French
mime · rank #25,045 · 5 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-MID #25,045
- LEN-MID 4 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-MID 5 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,038
- PHOTO-FINISH McCarthy
Nearest frequency peer: McCarthy (-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 « mime »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- Matthews
Matthews
74,959 corpus weight
- mausolée
mausolée
74,958 corpus weight
- McCarthy
McCarthy
74,957 corpus weight
- mime
mime
74,956 corpus weight
- minceur
minceur
74,955 corpus weight
- miner
miner
74,954 corpus weight
What this shows « mime » siège parmi ces pairs FrequencyWords; la profondeur des fautes est suivie à part dans le graphique d'édition.
Visual similarity to commonly confused words
How many letter changes separate each confused pair (Levenshtein distance, normalized).
Source: PlainSpell confusable corpus (Wiktionary, CC BY-SA).
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | mime |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \mim\ |
| Letters | 4 |
| Frequency rank | #25,045 |
| Misspellings tracked | 5 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « mime »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 5 spelling variants around mime (IPA \mim\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #25,045 among 5,038 “M” headwords. Wiktionary lists 2 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 5 likely wrong-spelling variants for mime, with forms such as "imme", "miem", and "mimme". 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 20 confusable-pair relationships, "mm", "mis", "Mme", and more, a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.
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 mime, spelled M-I-M-E.
Definition
- 1Genre théâtral dont les expressions principales sont l’attitude, le geste et la mimique.
- 2Comédie, farce souvent libre jusqu’à l’obscénité.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how mime appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
La danse et le mime sont eux aussi des arts de la scène. Mais c’est du théâtre sans paroles.
Citons aussi les créations pleines d’humour de Nola Rae (une mime anglaise née en 1950) ou celles de Pinok et Matho, véritables athlètes corporels [Le Tremplin théâtre].
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- imme
- miem
- mimme
- mmie
- mmime
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of mime - 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.
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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Similar French words by spelling shape
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Same letter count
Frequency-ranked French headwords with 4 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (5 here; floor ≥5).