minable
\mi.nabl\
The verdict
“minable” has 10 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #12,620. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #12,620
- frequency rank, French
- 5,038
- “M” headwords
- 10
- tracked misspellings
- 3
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Qui semble être miné, usé par la misère, par le chagrin.
Corpus desk
Index FR-minable · minable · French
minable · rank #12,620 · 10 variants · 3 confusables
- FREQ-MID #12,620
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-LOW 3 pairs
- VAR-MID 10 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,038
- PHOTO-FINISH Michelin
Nearest frequency peer: Michelin (-1 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.
Pairs de rang près de l'aimant d'erreurs « minable »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- manquant
manquant
87,384 corpus weight
- marchande
marchande
87,383 corpus weight
- Michelin
Michelin
87,382 corpus weight
- minable
minable
87,381 corpus weight
- moelle
moelle
87,380 corpus weight
- mouillé
mouillé
87,379 corpus weight
What this shows « minable » siège parmi ces pairs FrequencyWords; la profondeur des fautes est suivie à part dans le graphique d'édition.
Visual similarity to commonly confused words
How many letter changes separate each confused pair (Levenshtein distance, normalized).
Source: PlainSpell confusable corpus (Wiktionary, CC BY-SA).
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | minable |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | \mi.nabl\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #12,620 |
| Misspellings tracked | 10 |
| Confusable pairs | 3 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « minable »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 10 spelling variants around minable (IPA \mi.nabl\), anadjective. Corpus frequency is #12,620 among 5,038 “M” headwords. Wiktionary lists 3 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 10 likely wrong-spelling variants for minable, with forms such as "imnable", "mianble", and "minabble". Each of these forms differs from the correct spelling by one small edit: a doubled letter, a dropped silent letter, or a substituted vowel. It also participates in 3 confusable-pair relationships, "miracle", "minables", "maniable", since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
Our source data has no etymology on file for this entry, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct French form is minable, spelled M-I-N-A-B-L-E.
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.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how minable appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Air minable.
Mais en le voyant si minable, si fini, elle éprouva un dernier apitoiement.
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- imnable
- mianble
- minabble
- minabel
- minablle
- minalbe
- minbale
- minnable
- mminable
- mniable
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of minable - expressed in single-character edits (insert, delete, or swap one letter). Bigger bars stand out at a glance; a one-edit slip is the hardest to catch.
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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Similar French words by spelling shape
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Same letter count
Frequency-ranked French headwords with 7 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (10 here; floor ≥5).