minibar
\mi.ni.baʁ\
The verdict
“minibar” is uncommon French (frequency #70,843 among 5,038 “M” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #70,843
- frequency rank, French
- 5,038
- “M” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Réfrigérateur contenant des boissons et des en-cas dans les chambres d’hôtel.
Corpus desk
Index FR-minibar · minibar · French
minibar · rank #70,843 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #70,843
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,038
- PHOTO-FINISH mimant
Nearest frequency peer: mimant (-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 « minibar »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- MFA
MFA
29,162 corpus weight
- mimant
mimant
29,159 corpus weight
- minibar
minibar
29,158 corpus weight
- minimas
minimas
29,157 corpus weight
- minots
minots
29,156 corpus weight
- mirabelles
mirabelles
29,155 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « minibar » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | minibar |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \mi.ni.baʁ\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #70,843 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « minibar » en français
Rare enough to double-check
minibar is uncommon French at frequency #70,843 among 5,038 “M” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \mi.ni.baʁ\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Réfrigérateur contenant des boissons et des en-cas dans les chambres d’hôtel.".
Zero misspellings are on record for minibar in our index, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
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 minibar, spelled M-I-N-I-B-A-R.
Definition
- 1Réfrigérateur contenant des boissons et des en-cas dans les chambres d’hôtel.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how minibar appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
On avait encore réussi, dans cet espace restreint, à caser un minibar et une chaise faisant face à un miroir de trente centimètres de côté ; et voilà, c’était tout.
Affichée comme un engagement écolo, la fin des minibars arrange bien les établissements : ce service constitue une gageure pour les gestionnaires d’hôtel, et pour les femmes de chambres qui doivent vérifier chaque jour si une canette manque à l’appel.
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); 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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