ministères
\mi.nis.tɛʁ\
The verdict
“ministères” has 16 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #9,196. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #9,196
- frequency rank, French
- 5,038
- “M” headwords
- 16
- tracked misspellings
- 9
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Pluriel de ministère.
Corpus desk
Index FR-ministeres · ministères · French
ministères · rank #9,196 · 16 variants · 9 confusables
- FREQ-COMMON #9,196
- LEN-MEGA 10 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 9 pairs
- VAR-HIGH 16 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,038
- PHOTO-FINISH Matthew
Nearest frequency peer: Matthew (-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 « ministères »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- marchait
marchait
90,808 corpus weight
- massivement
massivement
90,807 corpus weight
- Matthew
Matthew
90,806 corpus weight
- ministères
ministères
90,805 corpus weight
- modernisati…
modernisation
90,804 corpus weight
- mondialisat…
mondialisation
90,803 corpus weight
What this shows « ministères » 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 | ministères |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \mi.nis.tɛʁ\ |
| Letters | 10 |
| Frequency rank | #9,196 |
| Misspellings tracked | 16 |
| Confusable pairs | 9 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « ministères »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 16 spelling variants around ministères (IPA \mi.nis.tɛʁ\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #9,196 among 5,038 “M” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Pluriel de ministère.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 16 likely wrong-spelling variants for ministères, with forms such as "imnistères", "miinstères", and "minisstères". 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 9 confusable-pair relationships, "ministre", "ministres", "monastères", 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 pattern is best understood through pronunciation rather than a traceable origin. The correct French form is ministères, spelled M-I-N-I-S-T-È-R-E-S.
Definition
- 1Pluriel de ministère.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how ministères appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Il faudrait représenter Rabourdin habillé en boucher, mais bien ressemblant, chercher des analogies entre un bureau et une cuisine, lui mettre à la main un tranche-lard, peindre les principaux employés des ministères en volailles, les encager dans une immense souricière sur laquelle on écrirait : Exécutions administratives, et il serait censé leur couper…
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- imnistères
- miinstères
- minisstères
- ministeres
- ministrèes
- ministtères
- ministèers
- ministèress
- ministèrres
- ministèrse
- minisètres
- minitsères
- minnistères
- minsitères
- mministères
- mniistères
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of ministères - 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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Similar French words by spelling shape
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Same letter count
Frequency-ranked French headwords with 10 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (16 here; floor ≥5).