minier
\mi.nje\
The verdict
“minier” has 8 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #15,444. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #15,444
- frequency rank, French
- 5,038
- “M” headwords
- 8
- tracked misspellings
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Relatif aux mines.
Corpus desk
Index FR-minier · minier · French
minier · rank #15,444 · 8 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-MID #15,444
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-MID 8 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,038
- PHOTO-FINISH millionnaire
Nearest frequency peer: millionnaire (-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 « minier »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- mettaient
mettaient
84,560 corpus weight
- miennes
miennes
84,559 corpus weight
- millionnaire
millionnaire
84,558 corpus weight
- minier
minier
84,557 corpus weight
- minières
minières
84,556 corpus weight
- montrée
montrée
84,555 corpus weight
What this shows « minier » 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 | minier |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | \mi.nje\ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #15,444 |
| Misspellings tracked | 8 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « minier »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 8 spelling variants around minier (IPA \mi.nje\), anadjective. Corpus frequency is #15,444 among 5,038 “M” headwords. Wiktionary lists 2 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 8 likely wrong-spelling variants for minier, with forms such as "imnier", "miiner", and "mineir". Every one of these variants traces to a single-character edit -- an added or dropped letter, a swapped consonant, or a vowel swap -- the kind of slip a spell-checker is built to catch. It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "miser", "munie", "mixer", and more, since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct French form is minier, spelled M-I-N-I-E-R.
Definition
- 1Relatif aux mines.
- 2Où il y a des mines.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how minier appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Il y a lieu de remarquer que le coke lavé peut, pour certaines provenances, apporter dans le haut-fourneau ou dans le cubilot des fondeurs, plus de soufre et de phosphore que la des cokes même très cendreux , des cokeries minières françaises.
Au bout du compte, jeudi, après plusieurs semaines de rudes débats, l’Australie a adopté un plan ciblant les plus gros pollueurs de l’île-continent, dont les géants miniers Rio Tinto ou BHP.
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- imnier
- miiner
- mineir
- minierr
- minire
- minnier
- mminier
- mniier
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of minier - 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
Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "minier", not the corpus desk frequency band.
Same letter count
Frequency-ranked French headwords with 6 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (8 here; floor ≥5).