mincir
\mɛ̃.siʁ\
The verdict
“mincir” is uncommon French (frequency #70,028 among 5,038 “M” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #70,028
- frequency rank, French
- 5,038
- “M” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - S'amincir, devenir plus mince.
Corpus desk
Index FR-mincir · mincir · French
mincir · rank #70,028 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #70,028
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,038
- PHOTO-FINISH Mimizan
Nearest frequency peer: Mimizan (-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 « mincir »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- Millar
Millar
29,976 corpus weight
- millard
millard
29,975 corpus weight
- Mimizan
Mimizan
29,974 corpus weight
- mincir
mincir
29,973 corpus weight
- moda
moda
29,970 corpus weight
- moindrement
moindrement
29,969 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « mincir » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | mincir |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \mɛ̃.siʁ\ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #70,028 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « mincir » en français
Rare enough to double-check
mincir is uncommon French at frequency #70,028 among 5,038 “M” headwords, classed as averb, transcribed \mɛ̃.siʁ\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "S'amincir, devenir plus mince.".
mincir has no tracked misspelling variants, suggesting the orthography follows predictable French patterns. Our dataset records no confusable match here, since no other headword is close enough in sound or shape to pair with it.
No documented word history exists for this headword, 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 mincir, spelled M-I-N-C-I-R.
Definition
- 1S'amincir, devenir plus mince.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how mincir appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Ce magazine féminin refait un numéro « Spécial mincir » avant les vacances.
Antonyms
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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