minable
Letters
7 characters
Frequency Rank
#12,620
in French word usage
Misspellings
10
tracked variants
Confusables
3
similar word pairs
minable is anFrenchadj. It means: Qui semble être miné, usé par la misère, par le chagrin. Pronounced \mi.nabl\. Often confused with miracle and minables.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | minable |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adj |
| IPA | \mi.nabl\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #12,620 |
| Misspellings tracked | 10 |
| Confusable pairs | 3 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for minable is 7 letters long, classified as anadj, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \mi.nabl\. Corpus data places it at rank #12,620 in overall French word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it.Wiktionary records 3 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 10 documented wrong-spelling variants for minable, with forms such as "imnable", "mianble", and "minabble". 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 3 confusable-pair relationships, "miracle", "minables", "maniable", 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 minable, spelled M-I-N-A-B-L-E, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Qui semble être miné, usé par la misère, par le chagrin.
- 2Qui ne paie pas de mine, misérable.
- 3Faible, petit, pitoyable, ou encore faux, hypocrite.
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Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: imnable,mianble,minabble,minabel,minablle,minalbe,minbale,minnable,mminable,mniable
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
Relative frequency of common misspelling types for minable
Misspelling Variants of "minable"
Frequency rank: #12,620 in French
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