minant
\mi.nɑ̃\
The verdict
“minant” is uncommon French (frequency #97,168 among 5,038 “M” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #97,168
- frequency rank, French
- 5,038
- “M” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Participe présent de miner.
Corpus desk
Index FR-minant · minant · French
minant · rank #97,168 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #97,168
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,038
- PHOTO-FINISH mimo
Nearest frequency peer: mimo (-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 « minant »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- millette
millette
2,837 corpus weight
- milliaire
milliaire
2,836 corpus weight
- milliseconde
milliseconde
2,835 corpus weight
- mimo
mimo
2,834 corpus weight
- minant
minant
2,833 corpus weight
- mocassin
mocassin
2,830 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « minant » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | minant |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \mi.nɑ̃\ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #97,168 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « minant » en français
Rare enough to double-check
minant is uncommon French at frequency #97,168 among 5,038 “M” headwords, classed as averb, transcribed \mi.nɑ̃\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Participe présent de miner.".
minant has no tracked misspelling variants, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, which typically means the spelling is too distinctive to be mistaken for another word.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so its spelling is best explained by sound-to-letter mapping rather than etymology. The correct French form is minant, spelled M-I-N-A-N-T.
Definition
- 1Participe présent de miner.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how minant appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Car les pogromes, en minant le Judaïsme, tendent à compromettre son existence et ramènent à rien les tentatives pour améliorer la condition humaine.
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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