minibus
\mi.ni.bys\
The verdict
“minibus” has 10 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #32,072. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #32,072
- frequency rank, French
- 5,038
- “M” headwords
- 10
- tracked misspellings
- 5
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Autobus de petite dimension.
Corpus desk
Index FR-minibus · minibus · French
minibus · rank #32,072 · 10 variants · 5 confusables
- FREQ-MID #32,072
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 5 pairs
- VAR-MID 10 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,038
- PHOTO-FINISH mestre
Nearest frequency peer: mestre (-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 « minibus »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- Mercer
Mercer
67,932 corpus weight
- mesquin
mesquin
67,931 corpus weight
- mestre
mestre
67,930 corpus weight
- minibus
minibus
67,929 corpus weight
- minus
minus
67,928 corpus weight
- moineau
moineau
67,927 corpus weight
What this shows « minibus » 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 | minibus |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \mi.ni.bys\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #32,072 |
| Misspellings tracked | 10 |
| Confusable pairs | 5 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « minibus »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 10 spelling variants around minibus (IPA \mi.ni.bys\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #32,072 among 5,038 “M” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Autobus de petite dimension.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 10 likely wrong-spelling variants for minibus, with forms such as "imnibus", "miinbus", and "minbius". 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 5 confusable-pair relationships, "minus", "minis", "minimum", and more, a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.
No borrowing history is documented for this entry, so its spelling is best explained by sound-to-letter mapping rather than etymology. The correct French form is minibus, spelled M-I-N-I-B-U-S.
Definition
- 1Autobus de petite dimension.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how minibus appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
C'était le rendez-vous des babs, des routards, des beatniks en partance pour les Indes. Les minibus se garaient en face.
Pour commencer, dit Luc, dans un joli minibus vert, le guide à l'accent gaga nous a emmenés, forcément, à Geoffroy-Guichard, qu'il a rebaptisé « le ventre de l’ASS ».
Synonyms
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- imnibus
- miinbus
- minbius
- minibbus
- minibsu
- minibuss
- miniubs
- minnibus
- mminibus
- mniibus
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of minibus - 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 (10 here; floor ≥5).