mini-bar
\mi.ni.baʁ\
The verdict
“mini-bar” is uncommon French (outside the top frequency list), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency French
- 8
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Sorte de réfrigérateur qui contient des boissons et des en-cas dans les chambres d'hôtel ou dans les loges des artistes.
Corpus desk
Index FR-mini-bar · mini-bar · French
mini-bar · unranked · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-UNRANKED Unranked
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-THIN "M" thin
- PHOTO-UNK Peer pending
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.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | mini-bar |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \mi.ni.baʁ\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
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Rare enough to double-check
mini-bar is uncommon French outside the top frequency list, classed as anoun, transcribed \mi.ni.baʁ\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Sorte de réfrigérateur qui contient des boissons et des en-cas dans les chambres d'hôtel ou dans les loges des artistes.".
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for mini-bar, since its letter pattern doesn't lend itself to common typo substitutions. No confusable counterpart is on file for this word, since no other headword is close enough in sound or shape to pair with it.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, 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 mini-bar, spelled M-I-N-I---B-A-R.
Definition
- 1Sorte de réfrigérateur qui contient des boissons et des en-cas dans les chambres d'hôtel ou dans les loges des artistes.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how mini-bar appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Le meilleur champagne était dans chaque mini-bar et la salle réservée aux interviews était prête à accueillir cameramen, perchmen et autres ingénieurs du son.
Je pris un Diet Coke dans le mini-bar.
This word in other languages
Definitions, pronunciation, and etymology for this entry are drawn from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org structured extract (CC BY-SA). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.