Mimoun
\mi.mun\
The verdict
“Mimoun” is uncommon French (frequency #85,022 among 5,038 “M” headwords), classed as a proper noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #85,022
- frequency rank, French
- 5,038
- “M” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Nom de famille.
Corpus desk
Index FR-mimoun · Mimoun · French
Mimoun · rank #85,022 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #85,022
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,038
- PHOTO-FINISH migrante
Nearest frequency peer: migrante (-2 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 « Mimoun »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- microbiolog…
microbiologique
14,983 corpus weight
- migrante
migrante
14,981 corpus weight
- Mimoun
Mimoun
14,979 corpus weight
- mitzvah
mitzvah
14,977 corpus weight
- mixés
mixés
14,976 corpus weight
- mnémonique
mnémonique
14,975 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « Mimoun » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Mimoun |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| IPA | \mi.mun\ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #85,022 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « Mimoun » en français
Rare enough to double-check
Mimoun is uncommon French at frequency #85,022 among 5,038 “M” headwords, classed as aproper noun, transcribed \mi.mun\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
Mimoun doesn't appear in our generated misspelling index, typically a sign the spelling maps closely to how the word sounds. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, a sign it's visually distinctive enough not to be mixed up with another word.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, so its spelling is best explained by sound-to-letter mapping rather than etymology. The correct French form is Mimoun, spelled M-I-M-O-U-N.
Definition
- 1Nom de famille.
- 2Alain Mimoun (1921-2013), athlète français né en Algérie.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how Mimoun appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Mimoun était un grand champion de la course à pied.
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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