minard
\mi.naʁ\
The verdict
“minard” is uncommon French (frequency #60,206 among 5,038 “M” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #60,206
- frequency rank, French
- 5,038
- “M” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Nom du poulpe sur les côtes de Saint-Brieuc.
Corpus desk
Index FR-minard · minard · French
minard · rank #60,206 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #60,206
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,038
- PHOTO-FINISH miniaturisati…
Nearest frequency peer: miniaturisation (+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 « minard »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- menard
menard
39,799 corpus weight
- menèrent
menèrent
39,798 corpus weight
- migrantes
migrantes
39,797 corpus weight
- minard
minard
39,795 corpus weight
- miniaturisa…
miniaturisation
39,794 corpus weight
- mioche
mioche
39,793 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « minard » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | minard |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \mi.naʁ\ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #60,206 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « minard » en français
Rare enough to double-check
minard is uncommon French at frequency #60,206 among 5,038 “M” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \mi.naʁ\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Nom du poulpe sur les côtes de Saint-Brieuc.".
No generated misspelling entries exist for minard in our index, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. Our dataset records no confusable match here, suggesting its spelling stands apart enough that readers rarely confuse it with something else.
Our source data has no etymology on file for this entry, so any spelling logic here comes from how the word's sounds map to letters, not a documented origin story. The correct French form is minard, spelled M-I-N-A-R-D.
Definition
- 1Nom du poulpe sur les côtes de Saint-Brieuc.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how minard appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
…il n’est pas même nécessaire que vous entriez en mer, les rochers vous offriront une abondante moisson de coquillages exquis et variés, sans parler des minards, margates, châtaignes de mer, que les habitants, trop favorisés, dédaignent.
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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