minière
\mi.njɛʁ\
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
- mentionnés
mentionnés
88,564 corpus weight
- merlin
merlin
88,563 corpus weight
- messager
messager
88,562 corpus weight
- minière
minière
88,561 corpus weight
- Mitchell
Mitchell
88,560 corpus weight
- molécule
molécule
88,559 corpus weight
What this shows « minière » 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 | minière |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \mi.njɛʁ\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #11,440 |
| Misspellings tracked | 10 |
| Confusable pairs | 16 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « minière »
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
- 1Mine.
- 2Mine exploitée à ciel ouvert ou avec des puits peu profonds.
- 3Gangue dans laquelle se trouve un métal ou un minéral.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how minière appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
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.
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.
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 "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).