minérale

Name: minérale, French Word Data
Creator: Wiktionary
License: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/

\mi.ne.ʁal\

/\mi.ne.ʁal\/ adj

By PlainSpell · According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA) · analyzed September 3, 2026

The verdict

“minérale” has 12 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #17,192. The variants make it a useful spelling check.

#17,192
frequency rank, French: 5,038
“M” headwords: 12
tracked misspellings: 7
confusable pairs

According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Féminin singulier de minéral.

Corpus desk

Index FR-minerale · minérale · French

minérale · rank #17,192 · 12 variants · 7 confusables

FREQ-MID #17,192
LEN-LONG 8 letters
VOW-4 4 vowels
CONFUS-MID 7 pairs
VAR-MID 12 variants
BOOK-DENSE 5,038
PHOTO-FINISH millénaires

Nearest frequency peer: millénaires (-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.

miam

82,812
mie

82,811
millénaires

82,810
minérale

82,809
Montebourg

82,808
Montmartre

82,807

What this shows « minérale » 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).

minérale vs Minerve

50% similar

minérale vs minéraux

75% similar

minérale vs minimale

75% similar

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

Key facts for minérale
Property	Value
Headword	minérale
Language	French
Part of speech	Adjective
IPA	\mi.ne.ʁal\
Letters	8
Frequency rank	#17,192
Misspellings tracked	12
Confusable pairs	7
Source	Wiktionary (kaikki.org)

Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « minérale »

La fréquence va de la poignée de mots du quotidien (gauche) à la longue queue presque jamais vue (droite).minéralese place ici:

#17,192

#1#100#1K#10K#100K

← used constantlyrarely used →

L'échelle est logarithmique (chaque tic ≈ 10× plus rare). Dans la même bande de rareté figurent « millénaires » (#17,191), « Montebourg » (#17,193), « mie » (#17,190). Parmi 5,038 lemmes en « M », « minérale » est au #17,192. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

A misspelling magnet

The generator records 12 spelling variants around minérale (IPA \mi.ne.ʁal\), anadjective. Corpus frequency is #17,192 among 5,038 “M” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Féminin singulier de minéral.".

Our generated misspelling index lists 12 likely wrong-spelling variants for minérale, with forms such as "imnérale", "minerale", and "minnérale". 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 7 confusable-pair relationships, "Minerve", "minéraux", "minimale", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.

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 minérale, spelled M-I-N-É-R-A-L-E.

Definition

1
Féminin singulier de minéral.

Recorded use

Wiktionary example

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

À cet effet, des inscriptions à la peinture minérale, « Ne jetez rien ici, ici commence la mer », seront apposées sur les avaloirs (grilles pluviales) des rues de Morlaix.

Common misspellings

Also misspelled as:

imnérale
minerale
minnérale
minréale
minéarle
minérael
minéralle
minérlae
minérrale
miénrale
mminérale
mniérale

Misspelling Pattern Breakdown

How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of minérale - 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.

Edit distance from "minérale"

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 "minérale"?

"minérale" is spelled M-I-N-É-R-A-L-E. The IPA pronunciation is \mi.ne.ʁal\.

What does "minérale" mean?

As an adjective, "minérale" means: Féminin singulier de minéral.

What words are commonly confused with "minérale"?

"minérale" is commonly confused with "Minerve", "minéraux", "minimale". These words look or sound similar but have different meanings. PlainSpell provides detailed comparisons for each pair.

How do you pronounce "minérale"?

The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "minérale" is \mi.ne.ʁal\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.

What language does "minérale" come from?

"minérale" is a French word. You can look up definitions, pronunciations, and spelling data for this and other words across English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, and German on PlainSpell.

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Similar French words by spelling shape

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

Same letter count

Frequency-ranked French headwords with 8 letters (nearest by frequency rank).

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Similar misspelling depth

Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (12 here; floor ≥5).

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