minière

\mi.njɛʁ\

/\mi.njɛʁ\/ noun

The verdict

“minière” has 10 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #11,440. The variants make it a useful spelling check.

#11,440
frequency rank, French
5,038
“M” headwords
10
tracked misspellings
16
confusable pairs

According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Mine.

Corpus desk

Index FR-miniere · minière · French

minière · rank #11,440 · 10 variants · 16 confusables

  • FREQ-MID #11,440
  • LEN-LONG 7 letters
  • VOW-4 4 vowels
  • CONFUS-HIGH 16 pairs
  • VAR-MID 10 variants
  • BOOK-DENSE 5,038
  • PHOTO-FINISH messager

Nearest frequency peer: messager (-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 « minière »

Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin

corpus weight

What this shows « minière » siège parmi ces pairs FrequencyWords; la profondeur des fautes est suivie à part dans le graphique d'édition.

Source FrequencyWords open word-frequency list As of September 3, 2026

Visual similarity to commonly confused words

How many letter changes separate each confused pair (Levenshtein distance, normalized).

minière vs misère
71% similar
minière vs minime
71% similar
minière vs Molière
57% similar

Source: PlainSpell confusable corpus (Wiktionary, CC BY-SA).

Key facts for minière
PropertyValue
Headwordminière
LanguageFrench
Part of speechNoun
IPA\mi.njɛʁ\
Letters7
Frequency rank#11,440
Misspellings tracked10
Confusable pairs16
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « minière »

De gauche à droite: le peu qui porte la parole quotidienne, puis la longue queue quasi invisible.minièrese place ici:

#1#100#1K#10K#100K
← used constantlyrarely used →

L'échelle est logarithmique (chaque tic ≈ 10× plus rare). Dans la même bande de rareté figurent « messager » (#11,439), « Mitchell » (#11,441), « merlin » (#11,438). Parmi 5,038 lemmes en « M », « minière » est au #11,440. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

A misspelling magnet

The generator records 10 spelling variants around minière (IPA \mi.njɛʁ\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #11,440 among 5,038 “M” headwords. Wiktionary lists 3 senses, so context still picks the gloss.

Our generated misspelling index lists 10 likely wrong-spelling variants for minière, with forms such as "imnière", "miinère", and "miniere". 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 16 confusable-pair relationships, "misère", "minime", "Molière", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.

No documented word history exists for this headword, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct French form is minière, spelled M-I-N-I-È-R-E.

Definition

  1. 1
    Mine.
  2. 2
    Mine exploitée à ciel ouvert ou avec des puits peu profonds.
  3. 3
    Gangue dans laquelle se trouve un métal ou un minéral.

Recorded use

Wiktionary examples

These source excerpts show how minière appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.

  1. C’est ainsi qu’on peut juger qu’il y a des feuilles, appliquées les unes aux autres en tout sens, dans les corps polyèdres que la nature forme dans les minières et ailleurs.
  2. La minière de Rauboudin, près Sommerance, est très-bien installée ; les terres chargées dans des wagons qui roulent sur un petit chemin de fer, servent à remblayer l’excavation au fur et à mesure de l'avancement ; […].

Common misspellings

Also misspelled as:

  • imnière
  • miinère
  • miniere
  • minirèe
  • minièer
  • minièrre
  • minnière
  • minèire
  • mminière
  • mniière

Misspelling Pattern Breakdown

How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of minière - measured in single-character edits (insert, delete, or substitute a letter). Larger bars are easier to catch; one-edit slips are the sneakiest.

imnière2miinère2miniere1minirèe2minièer2minièrre1minnière1minèire2
Edit distance from "minière"

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.

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "minière"?
"minière" is spelled M-I-N-I-È-R-E. The IPA pronunciation is \mi.njɛʁ\.
What does "minière" mean?
As a noun, "minière" means: Mine.
What words are commonly confused with "minière"?
"minière" is commonly confused with "misère", "minime", "Molière". These words look or sound similar but have different meanings. PlainSpell provides detailed comparisons for each pair.
How do you pronounce "minière"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "minière" is \mi.njɛʁ\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "minière" come from?
"minière" is a French word. You can look up definitions, pronunciations, and spelling data for this and other words across English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, and German on PlainSpell.
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Similar French words by spelling shape

Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "minière", not the corpus desk frequency band.

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).

Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org) Structured Wiktionary extract

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list