ministry
\ˈmɪn.ɪ.stɹi\
The verdict
“ministry” is uncommon French (frequency #68,470 among 5,038 “M” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #68,470
- frequency rank, French
- 5,038
- “M” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Ministère.
Corpus desk
Index FR-ministry · ministry · French
ministry · rank #68,470 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #68,470
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,038
- PHOTO-FINISH mif
Nearest frequency peer: mif (-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 « ministry »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- Micah
Micah
31,534 corpus weight
- microcrédit
microcrédit
31,533 corpus weight
- mif
mif
31,532 corpus weight
- ministry
ministry
31,531 corpus weight
- Mirecourt
Mirecourt
31,530 corpus weight
- modernisés
modernisés
31,529 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « ministry » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | ministry |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ˈmɪn.ɪ.stɹi\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #68,470 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « ministry » en français
Rare enough to double-check
ministry is uncommon French at frequency #68,470 among 5,038 “M” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \ˈmɪn.ɪ.stɹi\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
The misspelling generator found no plausible variants for ministry, a sign its spelling follows regular French conventions. We don't track a confusable pairing for this entry, a sign it's visually distinctive enough not to be mixed up with another word.
No borrowing history is documented for this entry, so any spelling logic here comes from how the word's sounds map to letters, not a documented origin story. The correct French form is ministry, spelled M-I-N-I-S-T-R-Y.
Definition
- 1Ministère.
- 2Ministère ; le sacerdoce, les fonctions de prêtre.
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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