minage
\mi.naʒ\
The verdict
“minage” is uncommon French (frequency #54,731 among 5,038 “M” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #54,731
- frequency rank, French
- 5,038
- “M” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Action de miner (une forteresse, un terrain, une étendue d’eau).
Corpus desk
Index FR-minage · minage · French
minage · rank #54,731 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #54,731
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,038
- PHOTO-FINISH Midas
Nearest frequency peer: Midas (-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.
Rangs de longue queue près de « minage »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- Menahem
Menahem
45,273 corpus weight
- mew
mew
45,272 corpus weight
- Midas
Midas
45,271 corpus weight
- minage
minage
45,270 corpus weight
- mixed
mixed
45,269 corpus weight
- modulo
modulo
45,267 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « minage » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | minage |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \mi.naʒ\ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #54,731 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « minage » en français
Rare enough to double-check
minage is uncommon French at frequency #54,731 among 5,038 “M” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \mi.naʒ\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Action de miner (une forteresse, un terrain, une étendue d’eau).".
minage has no tracked misspelling variants, typically a sign the spelling maps closely to how the word sounds. We don't track a confusable pairing for this entry, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
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 minage, spelled M-I-N-A-G-E.
Definition
- 1Action de miner (une forteresse, un terrain, une étendue d’eau).
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how minage appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Dans les travaux de minage à ciel ouvert nous avons en général deux surfaces de dégagement, (…) dans les travaux de minage en souterrain (…) nous n’avons plus qu’une seule surface de dégagement (…). Les coups de mine seront en conséquence beaucoup plus engagés en souterrain qu'à ciel ouvert et les consommations d’explosifs beaucoup plus élevées (P. TAVERN…
Le minage des eaux territoriales et intérieures nicaraguayennes par les Américains visait le renversement du gouvernement sandiniste.
This word in other languages
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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