minerals
\mi.ne.ˈɾals\
The verdict
“minerals” is uncommon French (frequency #84,070 among 5,038 “M” headwords), classed as an adjective. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #84,070
- frequency rank, French
- 5,038
- “M” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Masculin pluriel de mineral.
Corpus desk
Index FR-minerals · minerals · French
minerals · rank #84,070 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #84,070
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,038
- PHOTO-FINISH messires
Nearest frequency peer: messires (-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.
Rangs de longue queue près de « minerals »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- merina
merina
15,934 corpus weight
- messaline
messaline
15,933 corpus weight
- messires
messires
15,932 corpus weight
- minerals
minerals
15,931 corpus weight
- Moirans
Moirans
15,930 corpus weight
- monarchiques
monarchiques
15,929 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « minerals » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | minerals |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | \mi.ne.ˈɾals\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #84,070 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « minerals » en français
Rare enough to double-check
minerals is uncommon French at frequency #84,070 among 5,038 “M” headwords, classed as anadjective, transcribed \mi.ne.ˈɾals\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Masculin pluriel de mineral.".
minerals doesn't appear in our generated misspelling index, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. Our confusable-pair dataset has no match for it, suggesting its spelling stands apart enough that readers rarely confuse it with something else.
This entry carries no recorded etymology, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct French form is minerals, spelled M-I-N-E-R-A-L-S.
Definition
- 1Masculin pluriel de mineral.
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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