minima
The verdict
“minima” has 8 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #13,839. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #13,839
- frequency rank, French
- 5,038
- “M” headwords
- 8
- tracked misspellings
- 13
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - La plus basse.
Corpus desk
Index FR-minima · minima · French
minima · rank #13,839 · 8 variants · 13 confusables
- FREQ-MID #13,839
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 13 pairs
- VAR-MID 8 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,038
- PHOTO-FINISH meunier
Nearest frequency peer: meunier (-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 « minima »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- mate
mate
86,164 corpus weight
- meunier
meunier
86,163 corpus weight
- minima
minima
86,162 corpus weight
- miroirs
miroirs
86,161 corpus weight
- motive
motive
86,160 corpus weight
- motivés
motivés
86,159 corpus weight
What this shows « minima » 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 | minima |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #13,839 |
| Misspellings tracked | 8 |
| Confusable pairs | 13 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « minima »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 8 spelling variants around minima, anadjective. Corpus frequency is #13,839 among 5,038 “M” headwords. Dominant gloss: "La plus basse.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 8 likely wrong-spelling variants for minima, with forms such as "imnima", "miinma", and "miniam". Each variant is a distinct typo pattern an edit-distance generator flags, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution. It also participates in 13 confusable-pair relationships, "minis", "Monica", "minime", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
No borrowing history is documented for this entry, so its spelling is best read as a straightforward mapping from sound to letter. The correct French form is minima, spelled M-I-N-I-M-A.
Definition
- 1La plus basse.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how minima appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Pressions minima.
Tensions minima.
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- imnima
- miinma
- miniam
- minimma
- minmia
- minnima
- mminima
- mniima
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of minima - 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.
Frequently Asked Questions
How do you spell "minima"?
What does "minima" mean?
What words are commonly confused with "minima"?
What language does "minima" come from?
Is PlainSpell free to use?
Similar French words by spelling shape
Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "minima", 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).