ministériel
\mi.nis.te.ʁjɛl\
The verdict
“ministériel” has 17 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #13,428. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #13,428
- frequency rank, French
- 202,672
- “M” headwords
- 17
- tracked misspellings
- 5
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - Qui concerne un ministère (ou des ministères).
Corpus desk
Index FR-ministeriel · ministériel · French
ministériel · rank #13,428 · 17 variants · 5 confusables
- FREQ-MID #13,428
- LEN-MEGA 11 letters
- VOW-5 5 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 5 pairs
- VAR-HIGH 17 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 202,672
- PHOTO-FINISH mineures
Nearest frequency peer: mineures (-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.
Frequency neighbourhood for “ministériel”
Lower corpus rank = more everyday usage (inverted bar length for readability)
- mel
mel
86,576 corpus weight
- mentor
mentor
86,575 corpus weight
- mineures
mineures
86,574 corpus weight
- ministériel
ministériel
86,573 corpus weight
- mordre
mordre
86,572 corpus weight
- Morel
Morel
86,571 corpus weight
What this shows Bars show where “ministériel” sits against the nearest ranked French headwords in the FrequencyWords band, not a reprint of letter-browse containment.
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 | ministériel |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | \mi.nis.te.ʁjɛl\ |
| Letters | 11 |
| Frequency rank | #13,428 |
| Misspellings tracked | 17 |
| Confusable pairs | 5 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “ministériel” sits in French frequency
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 17 spelling variants around ministériel (IPA \mi.nis.te.ʁjɛl\), anadjective. Corpus frequency is #13,428 among 202,672 “M” headwords. Wiktionary lists 2 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 17 likely wrong-spelling variants for ministériel, with forms such as "imnistériel", "miinstériel", and "minisstériel". 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 5 confusable-pair relationships, "ministériels", "ministérielle", "ministérielles", and more, a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.
No borrowing history is documented for this entry, so its spelling is best read as a straightforward mapping from sound to letter. The correct French form is ministériel, spelled M-I-N-I-S-T-É-R-I-E-L.
Definition
- 1Qui concerne un ministère (ou des ministères).
- 2Qui est partisan du ministère, dévoué au ministère.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how ministériel appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Le Quartet arabe anti-Qatar tient dimanche à Manama une réunion ministérielle pour faire le point sur la crise du Golfe, qui persiste près de deux mois après l'isolement du Qatar pour son présumé soutien au "terrorisme".
Crise ministérielle.
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- imnistériel
- miinstériel
- minisstériel
- ministeriel
- ministréiel
- ministtériel
- ministéirel
- ministéreil
- ministériell
- ministérile
- ministérriel
- minisétriel
- minitsériel
- minnistériel
- minsitériel
- mministériel
- mniistériel
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of ministériel - counted as single-character edits (an insertion, a deletion, or a substituted letter). The larger the bar, the easier the typo is to spot; one-edit slips are the ones that sneak past readers.
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.
PlainSpell is rendered directly from structured Wiktionary extracts and open word-frequency lists, no number is typed in by an editor. See our editorial standards & corrections policy, the methodology behind these numbers, or report a data error. Data current as of May 6, 2026. Primary sources: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org) and FrequencyWords.
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Similar French words by spelling shape
Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "ministériel", not the corpus desk frequency band.
Same letter count
Frequency-ranked French headwords with 11 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (17 here; floor ≥5).
Data Source
Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Word ordering uses an open word-frequency list; misspelling variants are generated by edit-distance from the correct headword.