minimum
\mi.ni.mɔm\
The verdict
“minimum” has 10 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #1,875. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #1,875
- frequency rank, French
- 5,038
- “M” headwords
- 10
- tracked misspellings
- 6
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Relatif à la limite inférieure d’une chose.
Corpus desk
Index FR-minimum · minimum · French
minimum · rank #1,875 · 10 variants · 6 confusables
- FREQ-COMMON #1,875
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 6 pairs
- VAR-MID 10 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,038
- PHOTO-FINISH longueur
Nearest frequency peer: longueur (-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 « minimum »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- jolie
jolie
98,129 corpus weight
- jésus
jésus
98,128 corpus weight
- longueur
longueur
98,127 corpus weight
- minimum
minimum
98,126 corpus weight
- moments
moments
98,125 corpus weight
- morte
morte
98,124 corpus weight
What this shows « minimum » 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 | minimum |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | \mi.ni.mɔm\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #1,875 |
| Misspellings tracked | 10 |
| Confusable pairs | 6 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « minimum »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 10 spelling variants around minimum (IPA \mi.ni.mɔm\), anadjective. Corpus frequency is #1,875 among 5,038 “M” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Relatif à la limite inférieure d’une chose.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 10 likely wrong-spelling variants for minimum, with forms such as "imnimum", "miinmum", and "minimmu". Each of these forms differs from the correct spelling by one small edit: a doubled letter, a dropped silent letter, or a substituted vowel. It also participates in 6 confusable-pair relationships, "minima", "minime", "maximum", and more, a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, 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 minimum, spelled M-I-N-I-M-U-M.
Definition
- 1Relatif à la limite inférieure d’une chose.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how minimum appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Les pouillés donnent, aux environs du XIVᵉ siècle, et pour les quinze diocèses en question, un nombre de paroisses compris entre 5 931 (chiffre minimum) et 6 694 (chiffre maximum).
Antonyms
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- imnimum
- miinmum
- minimmu
- minimmum
- minimumm
- miniumm
- minmium
- minnimum
- mminimum
- mniimum
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of minimum - 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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Same letter count
Frequency-ranked French headwords with 7 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
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Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (10 here; floor ≥5).