mimèse
\mi.mɛz\
The verdict
“mimèse” is uncommon French (outside the top frequency list), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency French
- 6
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Figure de rhétorique qui consiste à rapporter le discours d'un autre en style direct.
Corpus desk
Index FR-mimese · mimèse · French
mimèse · unranked · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-UNRANKED Unranked
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-THIN "M" thin
- PHOTO-UNK Peer pending
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.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | mimèse |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \mi.mɛz\ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « mimèse » en français
Rare enough to double-check
mimèse is uncommon French outside the top frequency list, classed as anoun, transcribed \mi.mɛz\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Figure de rhétorique qui consiste à rapporter le discours d'un autre en style direct.".
No generated misspelling entries exist for mimèse in our index, a straightforward case of a spelling with little room for common typos. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, which typically means the spelling is too distinctive to be mistaken for another word.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, 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 mimèse, spelled M-I-M-È-S-E.
Definition
- 1Figure de rhétorique qui consiste à rapporter le discours d'un autre en style direct.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how mimèse appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Le trait d'esprit peut aussi prendre la forme de la mimèse, selon le mot privilégié par Philippe Hamon, reprise du discours de celui dont on entend se moquer sur le mode du pastiche, de la parodie ou de la charge.
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Definitions, pronunciation, and etymology for this entry are drawn from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org structured extract (CC BY-SA). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.