minimes
\mi.nim\
The verdict
“minimes” has 10 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #16,185. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #16,185
- frequency rank, French
- 5,038
- “M” headwords
- 10
- tracked misspellings
- 19
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Pluriel de minime.
Corpus desk
Index FR-minimes · minimes · French
minimes · rank #16,185 · 10 variants · 19 confusables
- FREQ-MID #16,185
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-HIGH 19 pairs
- VAR-MID 10 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,038
- PHOTO-FINISH misérables
Nearest frequency peer: misérables (+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 « minimes »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- maudite
maudite
83,820 corpus weight
- minimes
minimes
83,816 corpus weight
- misérables
misérables
83,815 corpus weight
- mouiller
mouiller
83,814 corpus weight
- mouvance
mouvance
83,813 corpus weight
- must
must
83,812 corpus weight
What this shows « minimes » 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 | minimes |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | \mi.nim\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #16,185 |
| Misspellings tracked | 10 |
| Confusable pairs | 19 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « minimes »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 10 spelling variants around minimes (IPA \mi.nim\), anadjective. Corpus frequency is #16,185 among 5,038 “M” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Pluriel de minime.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 10 likely wrong-spelling variants for minimes, with forms such as "imnimes", "miinmes", and "miniems". 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 19 confusable-pair relationships, "minis", "munies", "minutes", 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 spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. The correct French form is minimes, spelled M-I-N-I-M-E-S.
Definition
- 1Pluriel de minime.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how minimes appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Mais pour un poëte mineur, combien de milliers de poëtes minimes et minimissimes — c’est-à-dire qui n’auront jamais de poëte que le nom, qu’ils s'attribuent — comptons-nous ?
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- imnimes
- miinmes
- miniems
- minimess
- minimmes
- minimse
- minmies
- minnimes
- mminimes
- mniimes
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of minimes - expressed in single-character edits (insert, delete, or swap one letter). Bigger bars stand out at a glance; a one-edit slip is the hardest to catch.
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 "minimes"?
What does "minimes" mean?
What words are commonly confused with "minimes"?
How do you pronounce "minimes"?
What language does "minimes" come from?
Is PlainSpell free to use?
Similar French words by spelling shape
Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "minimes", 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).