mine

\min\

/\min\/ noun

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The verdict

“mine” sits in 20 confusable pairs (corpus #2,885) as a noun. The look-alike neighbours are the real trap.

#2,885
frequency rank, French
5,038
“M” headwords
4
tracked misspellings
20
confusable pairs

According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Endroit d’où l’on extrait le minerai, par opposition aux carrières. Elles peuvent être souterraines ou à ciel ouvert.

Corpus desk

Index FR-mine · mine · French

mine · rank #2,885 · 4 variants · 20 confusables

  • FREQ-COMMON #2,885
  • LEN-MID 4 letters
  • VOW-2 2 vowels
  • CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
  • VAR-LOW 4 variants
  • BOOK-DENSE 5,038
  • PHOTO-FINISH messieurs

Nearest frequency peer: messieurs (-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.

Voisins de fréquence du confusable « mine »

Pairs de poids proche dans le corpus, séparés des confusables ci-dessous

corpus weight

What this shows Les barres placent « mine » face aux lemmes français les plus proches par rang, pas un reprint du bureau des confusables.

Source FrequencyWords open word-frequency list As of September 3, 2026

Visual similarity to commonly confused words

How many letter changes separate each confused pair (Levenshtein distance, normalized).

mine vs MN
0% similar
mine vs mon
50% similar
mine vs mis
50% similar

Source: PlainSpell confusable corpus (Wiktionary, CC BY-SA).

Key facts for mine
PropertyValue
Headwordmine
LanguageFrench
Part of speechNoun
IPA\min\
Letters4
Frequency rank#2,885
Misspellings tracked4
Confusable pairs20
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Rang de corpus près des confusables de « mine »

Cette échelle va du noyau du français courant (gauche) jusqu'à la traîne des formes rares (droite).minese place ici:

#1#100#1K#10K#100K
← used constantlyrarely used →

L'échelle est logarithmique (chaque tic ≈ 10× plus rare). Dans la même bande de rareté figurent « messieurs » (#2,884), « Moscou » (#2,886), « lunettes » (#2,883). Parmi 5,038 lemmes en « M », « mine » est au #2,885. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

Easy to mix with look-alikes

The spelling risk for mine is neighbouring look-alikes ("MN", "mon", …), not just typos; it is anoun pronounced \min\. Frequency #2,885 among 5,038 “M” headwords. 8 recorded senses keep meaning in play.

Our generated misspelling index lists 4 likely wrong-spelling variants for mine, with forms such as "imne", "minne", and "mmine". Every one of these variants traces to a single-character edit -- an added or dropped letter, a swapped consonant, or a vowel swap -- the kind of slip a spell-checker is built to catch. It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "MN", "mon", "mis", and more, since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.

This entry's etymology isn't recorded, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct French form is mine, spelled M-I-N-E.

Definition

  1. 1
    Endroit d’où l’on extrait le minerai, par opposition aux carrières. Elles peuvent être souterraines ou à ciel ouvert.
  2. 2
    Minerai.
  3. 3
    Source d’idées.
  4. 4
    Petit bâton de graphite inséré dans un crayon et qui laisse la trace de l’écriture ou du dessin.
  5. 5
    Sorte de sape sous des fortifications.
  6. 6
    Charge explosive, que les militaires cachent, pour blesser ou tuer des humains, ou détruire du matériel militaire.
  7. 7
    Charge explosive destinée à abattre de la roche.
  8. 8
    Type de pâtes fines à la cuisson rapide entrant dans la réalisation du sauté mines.

Recorded use

Wiktionary examples

These source excerpts show how mine appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.

  1. Si, d’aventure, il restait sur place, attendant une vacance à l’usine, il travaillait à la mine et était payé par pipe de minerai extraite.
  2. Lorsque la bourgeoisie embryonnaire eut à affronter le Pérou et la Bolivie, en 1879, pour décider de la propriété des mines de nitrate (monopole naturel sur l’une des plus grandes richesses de l’époque), elle se heurta pourtant aux États-Unis.

This word in other languages

mine(English)mina(Español)Mine(Deutsch)mina(Português)

Common misspellings

Also misspelled as:

  • imne
  • minne
  • mmine
  • mnie

Misspelling Pattern Breakdown

How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of mine - counted as single-character edits (an insertion, a deletion, or a substituted letter). The larger the bar, the easier the typo is to spot; one-edit slips are the ones that sneak past readers.

imne2minne1mmine1mnie2
Edit distance from "mine"

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.

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "mine"?
"mine" is spelled M-I-N-E. The IPA pronunciation is \min\.
What does "mine" mean?
As a noun, "mine" means: Endroit d’où l’on extrait le minerai, par opposition aux carrières. Elles peuvent être souterraines ou à ciel ouvert.
What words are commonly confused with "mine"?
"mine" is commonly confused with "MN", "mon", "mis". These words look or sound similar but have different meanings. PlainSpell provides detailed comparisons for each pair.
How do you pronounce "mine"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "mine" is \min\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "mine" come from?
"mine" is a French word. PlainSpell covers definitions, pronunciations, and spelling data across English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, and German.
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Similar French words by spelling shape

Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "mine", not the corpus desk frequency band.

Same letter count

Frequency-ranked French headwords with 4 letters (nearest by frequency rank).

news#2,887Eric#2,876dite#2,873abus#2,860

Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org) Structured Wiktionary extract

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list