mine
Letters
4 characters
Frequency Rank
#2,885
in French word usage
Misspellings
4
tracked variants
Confusables
20
similar word pairs
mine is aFrenchnoun. It means: Endroit d’où l’on extrait le minerai, par opposition aux carrières. Elles peuvent être souterraines ou à ciel ouvert. Pronounced \min\. It ranks #2,885 in French word frequency. Often confused with MN and mon.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | mine |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \min\ |
| Letters | 4 |
| Frequency rank | #2,885 |
| Misspellings tracked | 4 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for mine is 4 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \min\. Corpus data places it at rank #2,885 in overall French word frequency, indicating it appears regularly in written and spoken text.Wiktionary records 8 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 4 documented wrong-spelling variants for mine, with forms such as "imne", "minne", and "mmine". Each variant represents a distinct typo pattern that appears often enough in corpora to be worth flagging, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution.It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "MN", "mon", "mis", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. For readers arriving here from a spelling check, the authoritative guidance is: the correct French form is mine, spelled M-I-N-E, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Endroit d’où l’on extrait le minerai, par opposition aux carrières. Elles peuvent être souterraines ou à ciel ouvert.
- 2Minerai.
- 3Source d’idées.
- 4Petit bâton de graphite inséré dans un crayon et qui laisse la trace de l’écriture ou du dessin.
- 5Sorte de sape sous des fortifications.
- 6Charge explosive, que les militaires cachent, pour blesser ou tuer des humains, ou détruire du matériel militaire.
- 7Charge explosive destinée à abattre de la roche.
- 8Type de pâtes fines à la cuisson rapide entrant dans la réalisation du sauté mines.
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: imne,minne,mmine,mnie
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
Relative frequency of common misspelling types for mine
Misspelling Variants of "mine"
Frequency rank: #2,885 in French
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Nearby French words
Other entries that begin with the letter M in our French index: