mineure
\mi.nœʁ\
The verdict
“mineure” has 9 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #10,196. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #10,196
- frequency rank, French
- 5,038
- “M” headwords
- 9
- tracked misspellings
- 18
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Celle qui n’a pas atteint l’âge légal de la majorité dans son pays.
Corpus desk
Index FR-mineure · mineure · French
mineure · rank #10,196 · 9 variants · 18 confusables
- FREQ-MID #10,196
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-HIGH 18 pairs
- VAR-MID 9 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,038
- PHOTO-FINISH militante
Nearest frequency peer: militante (-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 « mineure »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- Merkel
Merkel
89,808 corpus weight
- metro
metro
89,807 corpus weight
- militante
militante
89,806 corpus weight
- mineure
mineure
89,805 corpus weight
- minuscule
minuscule
89,804 corpus weight
- minéraux
minéraux
89,803 corpus weight
What this shows « mineure » 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 | mineure |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \mi.nœʁ\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #10,196 |
| Misspellings tracked | 9 |
| Confusable pairs | 18 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « mineure »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 9 spelling variants around mineure (IPA \mi.nœʁ\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #10,196 among 5,038 “M” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Celle qui n’a pas atteint l’âge légal de la majorité dans son pays.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 9 likely wrong-spelling variants for mineure, with forms such as "imneure", "mienure", and "minerue". 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 18 confusable-pair relationships, "minute", "misère", "mixeur", and more, a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.
This entry's etymology isn't recorded, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. The correct French form is mineure, spelled M-I-N-E-U-R-E.
Definition
- 1Celle qui n’a pas atteint l’âge légal de la majorité dans son pays.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how mineure appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Elle avait l'habitude de ce genre de situations, mais c’était la première fois qu’elle soignait une mineure non accompagnée, de surcroît désespérée par l’abandon de son petit ami au point de vouloir en finir avec la vie.
Antonyms
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- imneure
- mienure
- minerue
- mineuer
- mineurre
- minneure
- minuere
- mmineure
- mnieure
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of mineure - 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.
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).