miner
Letters
5 characters
Frequency Rank
#25,047
in French word usage
Misspellings
7
tracked variants
Confusables
20
similar word pairs
miner is aFrenchverb. It means: Creuser par-dessous un terrain, un rocher pour provoquer un effondrement ou pour y placer une mine. Pronounced \mi.ne\. Often confused with mir and mise.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | miner |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \mi.ne\ |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #25,047 |
| Misspellings tracked | 7 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for miner is 5 letters long, classified as averb, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \mi.ne\. Corpus data places it at rank #25,047 in overall French word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it.Wiktionary records 7 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 7 documented wrong-spelling variants for miner, with forms such as "imner", "mienr", and "minerr". 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, "mir", "mise", "mini", 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 miner, spelled M-I-N-E-R, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Creuser par-dessous un terrain, un rocher pour provoquer un effondrement ou pour y placer une mine.
- 2Creuser, caver lentement.
- 3Défoncer un sol pierreux.
- 4Consumer, détruire, ruiner peu à peu.
- 5Poser une charge d’explosif destinée à faire sauter, à détruire.
- 6Garnir de mines explosives.
- 7Effectuer du minage.
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Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: imner,mienr,minerr,minner,minre,mminer,mnier
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
Relative frequency of common misspelling types for miner
Misspelling Variants of "miner"
Frequency rank: #25,047 in French
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Nearby French words
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