mimosa
Letters
6 characters
Frequency Rank
#43,013
in French word usage
Misspellings
7
tracked variants
Confusables
1
similar word pairs
mimosa is aFrenchnoun. It means: Plante dicotylédone de la famille des Fabacées et de la sous-famille des Mimosées, arbrisseau ou arbre des régions chaudes, à feuilles composées bipennées et dont les folioles se rétractent au touc... Pronounced \mi.mo.za\. Often confused with mimosas.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | mimosa |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \mi.mo.za\ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #43,013 |
| Misspellings tracked | 7 |
| Confusable pairs | 1 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for mimosa is 6 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \mi.mo.za\. Corpus data places it at rank #43,013 in overall French word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it.Wiktionary records 6 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 7 documented wrong-spelling variants for mimosa, with forms such as "immosa", "mimmosa", and "mimoas". Each variant represents a distinct typo pattern that appears often enough in corpora to be worth flagging, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution.It also participates in 1 confusable-pair relationship, "mimosas", where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. For readers arriving here from a spelling check, the authoritative guidance is: the correct French form is mimosa, spelled M-I-M-O-S-A, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Plante dicotylédone de la famille des Fabacées et de la sous-famille des Mimosées, arbrisseau ou arbre des régions chaudes, à feuilles composées bipennées et dont les folioles se rétractent au toucher, les petites fleurs sont groupées en épis de couleur rose ou blanche.
- 2Arbrisseau ou arbre originaire d’Australie, du genre des Acacias, à fleurs jaunes en forme de petites boules duveteuses, groupées, délicatement parfumées, et cultivé en particulier dans le Midi de la France.
- 3Fleur du mimosa.
- 4Couleur de cette fleur.
- 5Jaune d’œuf dur haché ou pilé.
- 6Cocktail à base de champagne (ou de vin mousseux) et de jus d’agrumes glacé, généralement du jus d’orange.
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Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: immosa,mimmosa,mimoas,mimsoa,miomsa,mmimosa,mmiosa
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
Relative frequency of common misspelling types for mimosa
Misspelling Variants of "mimosa"
Frequency rank: #43,013 in French
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