Minitel
\mi.ni.tɛl\
The verdict
“Minitel” has 10 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #39,401. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #39,401
- frequency rank, French
- 5,038
- “M” headwords
- 10
- tracked misspellings
- 10
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Terminal de consultation de données vidéotex français.
Corpus desk
Index FR-minitel · Minitel · French
Minitel · rank #39,401 · 10 variants · 10 confusables
- FREQ-MID #39,401
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 10 pairs
- VAR-MID 10 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,038
- PHOTO-FINISH microbiologie
Nearest frequency peer: microbiologie (-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 « Minitel »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- maîtrisez
maîtrisez
60,603 corpus weight
- microbiolog…
microbiologie
60,601 corpus weight
- Minitel
Minitel
60,600 corpus weight
- minéralogie
minéralogie
60,599 corpus weight
- monitoring
monitoring
60,597 corpus weight
- monospace
monospace
60,596 corpus weight
What this shows « Minitel » 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 | Minitel |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \mi.ni.tɛl\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #39,401 |
| Misspellings tracked | 10 |
| Confusable pairs | 10 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « Minitel »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 10 spelling variants around Minitel (IPA \mi.ni.tɛl\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #39,401 among 5,038 “M” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Terminal de consultation de données vidéotex français.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 10 likely wrong-spelling variants for Minitel, with forms such as "imnitel", "miintel", and "minietl". 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 10 confusable-pair relationships, "minute", "mixité", "minutes", and more, a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, so its spelling is best explained by sound-to-letter mapping rather than etymology. The correct French form is Minitel, spelled M-I-N-I-T-E-L.
Definition
- 1Terminal de consultation de données vidéotex français.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how Minitel appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Il fait très peu de courses et se fait livrer sa nourriture par Minitel.
Alors on vous distille cette angoisse à déchiffrer sur des feuilles collées aux portes des lycées, à pianoter sur un Minitel dans le silence fiévreux d’un vestibule – le ronron tout proche de la télévision parle déjà du Tour de France.
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- imnitel
- miintel
- minietl
- minitell
- minitle
- minittel
- minnitel
- mintiel
- mminitel
- mniitel
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of Minitel - 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.
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Similar French words by spelling shape
Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "Minitel", not the corpus desk frequency band.
Same letter count
Frequency-ranked French headwords with 7 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (10 here; floor ≥5).