mineure

/\mi.nœʁ\/ noun

Letters

7 characters

Frequency Rank

#10,196

in French word usage

Misspellings

9

tracked variants

Confusables

18

similar word pairs

mineure is aFrenchnoun. It means: Celle qui n’a pas atteint l’âge légal de la majorité dans son pays. Pronounced \mi.nœʁ\. Often confused with minute and misère.

Key facts for mineure
PropertyValue
Headwordmineure
LanguageFrench
Part of speechNoun
IPA\mi.nœʁ\
Letters7
Frequency rank#10,196
Misspellings tracked9
Confusable pairs18
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Frequency rank visualization

Position of mineure in French word frequency (lower rank = more common)

Source: Wordfreq corpus

Spelling & Dictionary Insight

The French entry for mineure is 7 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \mi.nœʁ\. Corpus data places it at rank #10,196 in overall French word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it.The dominant gloss from Wiktionary reads: "Celle qui n’a pas atteint l’âge légal de la majorité dans son pays.".

Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 9 documented wrong-spelling variants for mineure, with forms such as "imneure", "mienure", and "minerue". 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 18 confusable-pair relationships, "minute", "misère", "mixeur", 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 mineure, spelled M-I-N-E-U-R-E, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.

Definition

  1. 1
    Celle qui n’a pas atteint l’âge légal de la majorité dans son pays.

Antonyms

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Common misspellings

Also misspelled as: imneure,mienure,minerue,mineuer,mineurre,minneure,minuere,mmineure,mnieure

Misspelling Pattern Breakdown

Relative frequency of common misspelling types for mineure

Misspelling Variants of "mineure"

imneure7mienure7minerue7mineuer7mineurre8minneure8minuere7mmineure8
Misspelling Variants of "mineure"

Frequency rank: #10,196 in French

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "mineure"?
"mineure" is spelled M-I-N-E-U-R-E. The IPA pronunciation is \mi.nœʁ\.
What does "mineure" mean?
As a noun, "mineure" means: Celle qui n’a pas atteint l’âge légal de la majorité dans son pays.
What words are commonly confused with "mineure"?
"mineure" is commonly confused with "minute", "misère", "mixeur". These words look or sound similar but have different meanings. PlainSpell provides detailed comparisons for each pair.
How do you pronounce "mineure"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "mineure" is \mi.nœʁ\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "mineure" come from?
"mineure" is a French word. PlainSpell covers definitions, pronunciations, and spelling data across English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, and German.
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Data Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Frequency data from Wordfreq. Misspellings derived from Hunspell dictionaries.