mimeuse
\mi.møz\
The verdict
“mimeuse” is uncommon French (outside the top frequency list), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency French
- 7
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Autre nom du mimosa.
Corpus desk
Index FR-mimeuse · mimeuse · French
mimeuse · unranked · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-UNRANKED Unranked
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-4 4 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 | mimeuse |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \mi.møz\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « mimeuse » en français
Rare enough to double-check
mimeuse is uncommon French outside the top frequency list, classed as anoun, transcribed \mi.møz\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Autre nom du mimosa.".
mimeuse has no tracked misspelling variants, since its letter pattern doesn't lend itself to common typo substitutions. 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.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct French form is mimeuse, spelled M-I-M-E-U-S-E.
Definition
- 1Autre nom du mimosa.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how mimeuse appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
En 1841, Charles d'Orbigny décrit le ou plutôt la mimosa, selon son nom latin (Mimosa pudica), et la traduit fort logiquement par mimeuse : c’est sous ce nom féminin de mimeuse qu’il fait son apparition dans le vocabulaire courant, et c’est sous ce nom que Pierre Larousse (qui d’ailleurs, selon la coutume des lexicographes, ne fait que recopier d’Orbigny)…
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.