ministère
Letters
9 characters
Frequency Rank
#1,035
in French word usage
Misspellings
14
tracked variants
Confusables
9
similar word pairs
ministère is aFrenchnoun. It means: Emploi ou charge qu’on exerce. Pronounced \mi.nis.tɛʁ\. It ranks #1,035 in French word frequency. Often confused with ministre and ministres.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | ministère |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \mi.nis.tɛʁ\ |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #1,035 |
| Misspellings tracked | 14 |
| Confusable pairs | 9 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for ministère is 9 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \mi.nis.tɛʁ\. Corpus data places it at rank #1,035 in overall French word frequency, indicating it appears regularly in written and spoken text.Wiktionary records 9 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our generated misspelling index lists 14 likely wrong-spelling variants for ministère, with forms such as "imnistère", "miinstère", and "minisstère". 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 9 confusable-pair relationships, "ministre", "ministres", "monastère", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. For readers arriving here from a spelling check, the authoritative guidance is: the correct French form is ministère, spelled M-I-N-I-S-T-È-R-E, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Emploi ou charge qu’on exerce.
- 2Fonction d’un huissier.
- 3Fonctions dans l’Église, notamment d’un prêtre (sacerdoce).
- 4Entremise de quelqu’un dans une affaire, le service qu’on rend à une autre personne dans quelque emploi, dans quelque fonction.
- 5Fonction des ministres chargés du soin des affaires publiques et dont l’ensemble constitue le gouvernement.
- 6Le département qu’ils administrent.
- 7Temps pendant lequel la personne dont on parle a été ministre.
- 8Ensemble des bureaux placés sous la direction d’un ministre et aussi le bâtiment où se trouvent ces services et la résidence du ministre.
- 9Ensemble des ministres ; gouvernement.
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Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: imnistère,miinstère,minisstère,ministere,ministrèe,ministtère,ministèer,ministèrre,minisètre,minitsère,minnistère,minsitère,mministère,mniistère
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
Relative frequency of common misspelling types for ministère
Misspelling Variants of "ministère"
Frequency rank: #1,035 in French
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Nearby French words
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