minerais
\min.ʁɛ\
The verdict
“minerais” has 11 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #23,610. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #23,610
- frequency rank, French
- 5,038
- “M” headwords
- 11
- tracked misspellings
- 8
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Pluriel de minerai.
Corpus desk
Index FR-minerais · minerais · French
minerais · rank #23,610 · 11 variants · 8 confusables
- FREQ-MID #23,610
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 8 pairs
- VAR-MID 11 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,038
- PHOTO-FINISH merah
Nearest frequency peer: merah (-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 « minerais »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- medium
medium
76,395 corpus weight
- mentez
mentez
76,393 corpus weight
- merah
merah
76,392 corpus weight
- minerais
minerais
76,391 corpus weight
- minérales
minérales
76,390 corpus weight
- mobilières
mobilières
76,388 corpus weight
What this shows « minerais » 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 | minerais |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \min.ʁɛ\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #23,610 |
| Misspellings tracked | 11 |
| Confusable pairs | 8 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « minerais »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 11 spelling variants around minerais (IPA \min.ʁɛ\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #23,610 among 5,038 “M” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Pluriel de minerai.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 11 likely wrong-spelling variants for minerais, with forms such as "imnerais", "mienrais", and "minearis". 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 8 confusable-pair relationships, "minéral", "minéraux", "minérale", and more, since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
This entry carries no recorded etymology, so its spelling is best explained by sound-to-letter mapping rather than etymology. The correct French form is minerais, spelled M-I-N-E-R-A-I-S.
Definition
- 1Pluriel de minerai.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how minerais appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Mais on s’expliquera facilement cette particularité si l’on réfléchit que les minerais de fer, qui sont presque toujours à l’état terreux et présentent très rarement l’éclat métallique, n’avaient rien qui les signalât à l’attention des premiers hommes.
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- imnerais
- mienrais
- minearis
- mineraiss
- minerasi
- minerias
- minerrais
- minnerais
- minreais
- mminerais
- mnierais
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of minerais - expressed in single-character edits (insert, delete, or swap one letter). Bigger bars stand out at a glance; a one-edit slip is the hardest to catch.
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 8 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (11 here; floor ≥5).