mineur
Letters
6 characters
Frequency Rank
#5,368
in French word usage
Misspellings
8
tracked variants
Confusables
20
similar word pairs
mineur is anFrenchadj. It means: Qui est moindre, plus petit. Pronounced \mi.nœʁ\. It ranks #5,368 in French word frequency. Often confused with miser and minou.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | mineur |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adj |
| IPA | \mi.nœʁ\ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #5,368 |
| Misspellings tracked | 8 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for mineur is 6 letters long, classified as anadj, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \mi.nœʁ\. Corpus data places it at rank #5,368 in overall French word frequency, indicating it appears regularly in written and spoken text.Wiktionary records 4 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 8 documented wrong-spelling variants for mineur, with forms such as "imneur", "mienur", and "mineru". 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, "miser", "minou", "mixer", 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 mineur, spelled M-I-N-E-U-R, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Qui est moindre, plus petit.
- 2Gamme ou tonalité dans laquelle les demi-tons sont placés entre les degrés II-III et V-VI.
- 3Intervalle obtenu en abaissant un intervalle majeur d’un demi-ton.
- 4Qui n’a pas atteint l’âge prescrit par les lois pour disposer de sa personne, de son bien.
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Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: imneur,mienur,mineru,mineurr,minneur,minuer,mmineur,mnieur
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
Relative frequency of common misspelling types for mineur
Misspelling Variants of "mineur"
Frequency rank: #5,368 in French
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