minerai
\min.ʁɛ\
The verdict
“minerai” has 9 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #11,806. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #11,806
- frequency rank, French
- 5,038
- “M” headwords
- 9
- tracked misspellings
- 9
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Composé métallique tel qu’on le retire de la mine.
Corpus desk
Index FR-minerai · minerai · French
minerai · rank #11,806 · 9 variants · 9 confusables
- FREQ-MID #11,806
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 9 pairs
- VAR-MID 9 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,038
- PHOTO-FINISH mercato
Nearest frequency peer: mercato (-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.
Pairs de rang près de l'aimant d'erreurs « minerai »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- légalité
légalité
88,198 corpus weight
- marocains
marocains
88,197 corpus weight
- mercato
mercato
88,196 corpus weight
- minerai
minerai
88,195 corpus weight
- montés
montés
88,194 corpus weight
- mosquées
mosquées
88,193 corpus weight
What this shows « minerai » siège parmi ces pairs FrequencyWords; la profondeur des fautes est suivie à part dans le graphique d'édition.
Visual similarity to commonly confused words
How many letter changes separate each confused pair (Levenshtein distance, normalized).
Source: PlainSpell confusable corpus (Wiktionary, CC BY-SA).
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | minerai |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \min.ʁɛ\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #11,806 |
| Misspellings tracked | 9 |
| Confusable pairs | 9 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « minerai »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 9 spelling variants around minerai (IPA \min.ʁɛ\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #11,806 among 5,038 “M” headwords. Wiktionary lists 2 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 9 likely wrong-spelling variants for minerai, with forms such as "imnerai", "mienrai", and "mineari". Each of these forms differs from the correct spelling by one small edit: a doubled letter, a dropped silent letter, or a substituted vowel. It also participates in 9 confusable-pair relationships, "minéral", "Minerve", "minéraux", 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 best read as a straightforward mapping from sound to letter. The correct French form is minerai, spelled M-I-N-E-R-A-I.
Definition
- 1Composé métallique tel qu’on le retire de la mine.
- 2Dans l’industrie agro-alimentaire, produit issu de l'élevage, minerai de volailles, minerai de porcs, minerai de chair ..., servant aux transformations de types steaks hachés et plats cuisinés.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how minerai appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Le minerai de cette fondrière est souvent pyriteux et contient, dans sa masse, de la galène disséminée en petits fragments.
Le minerai de fer a donné naissance à l'une des principales et des plus anciennes industries des Ardennes, la métallurgie du fer.
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- imnerai
- mienrai
- mineari
- mineria
- minerrai
- minnerai
- minreai
- mminerai
- mnierai
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of minerai - measured in single-character edits (insert, delete, or substitute a letter). Larger bars are easier to catch; one-edit slips are the sneakiest.
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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Similar French words by spelling shape
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Same letter count
Frequency-ranked French headwords with 7 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (9 here; floor ≥5).