minions
\mi.njɔ̃\
The verdict
“minions” is uncommon French (frequency #55,441 among 5,038 “M” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #55,441
- frequency rank, French
- 5,038
- “M” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Première personne du pluriel de l’indicatif imparfait du verbe miner.
Corpus desk
Index FR-minions · minions · French
minions · rank #55,441 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #55,441
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,038
- PHOTO-FINISH Minos
Nearest frequency peer: Minos (+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.
Rangs de longue queue près de « minions »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- Mercosur
Mercosur
44,565 corpus weight
- milanaise
milanaise
44,562 corpus weight
- minions
minions
44,560 corpus weight
- Minos
Minos
44,559 corpus weight
- modernistes
modernistes
44,557 corpus weight
- moldaves
moldaves
44,555 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « minions » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | minions |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \mi.njɔ̃\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #55,441 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « minions » en français
Rare enough to double-check
minions is uncommon French at frequency #55,441 among 5,038 “M” headwords, classed as averb, transcribed \mi.njɔ̃\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
minions has no tracked misspelling variants, typically a sign the spelling maps closely to how the word sounds. Our confusable-pair dataset has no match for it, which typically means the spelling is too distinctive to be mistaken for another word.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so its spelling pattern is best understood through pronunciation rather than a traceable origin. The correct French form is minions, spelled M-I-N-I-O-N-S.
Definition
- 1Première personne du pluriel de l’indicatif imparfait du verbe miner.
- 2Première personne du pluriel du subjonctif présent du verbe miner.
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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