minaret
\mi.na.ʁɛ\
The verdict
“minaret” is uncommon French (frequency #50,362 among 5,038 “M” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #50,362
- frequency rank, French
- 5,038
- “M” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Tour d’une mosquée, d'une medersa du haut de laquelle les musulmans sont appelés à la prière par le muezzin.
Corpus desk
Index FR-minaret · minaret · French
minaret · rank #50,362 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #50,362
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,038
- PHOTO-FINISH migrent
Nearest frequency peer: migrent (-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 « minaret »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- merder
merder
49,643 corpus weight
- mesquine
mesquine
49,642 corpus weight
- migrent
migrent
49,640 corpus weight
- minaret
minaret
49,639 corpus weight
- minée
minée
49,637 corpus weight
- Miquel
Miquel
49,636 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « minaret » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | minaret |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \mi.na.ʁɛ\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #50,362 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « minaret » en français
Rare enough to double-check
minaret is uncommon French at frequency #50,362 among 5,038 “M” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \mi.na.ʁɛ\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Tour d’une mosquée, d'une medersa du haut de laquelle les musulmans sont appelés à la prière par le muezzin.".
Zero misspellings are on record for minaret in our index, a straightforward case of a spelling with little room for common typos. This headword has no recorded confusable partner, since its spelling is unusual enough that it doesn't cluster with a lookalike.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, so its spelling is best explained by sound-to-letter mapping rather than etymology. The correct French form is minaret, spelled M-I-N-A-R-E-T.
Definition
- 1Tour d’une mosquée, d'une medersa du haut de laquelle les musulmans sont appelés à la prière par le muezzin.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how minaret appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Je demeurai une heure dans la grande rue, ayant pour récréation la vue d’un nid de cigogne planté sur une cheminée comme sur un minaret d’Athènes […]
Dominant tout, au sommet de la colline, une grande tour carrée, d’une blancheur tranchant sur les transparences ambiantes et qui scintillait au milieu du jour, aveuglante, gardant le soir les derniers rayons rouges du couchant : le minaret de la zaouïya de Sidi Salem.
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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