mink
\mɪŋk\
The verdict
“mink” is uncommon French (frequency #88,898 among 5,038 “M” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #88,898
- frequency rank, French
- 5,038
- “M” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Vison.
Corpus desk
Index FR-mink · mink · French
mink · rank #88,898 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #88,898
- LEN-MID 4 letters
- VOW-1 1 vowel
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,038
- PHOTO-FINISH miz
Nearest frequency peer: miz (+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 « mink »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- Meynard
Meynard
11,109 corpus weight
- microSD
microSD
11,108 corpus weight
- millepertuis
millepertuis
11,106 corpus weight
- mink
mink
11,103 corpus weight
- miz
miz
11,102 corpus weight
- Monaghan
Monaghan
11,098 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « mink » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | mink |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \mɪŋk\ |
| Letters | 4 |
| Frequency rank | #88,898 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « mink » en français
Rare enough to double-check
mink is uncommon French at frequency #88,898 among 5,038 “M” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \mɪŋk\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Vison.".
mink has no tracked misspelling variants, since its letter sequence doesn't invite the usual edit-distance slips. This entry stands alone in our confusable dataset, since its spelling is unusual enough that it doesn't cluster with a lookalike.
This entry's etymology isn't recorded, 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 mink, spelled M-I-N-K.
Definition
- 1Vison.
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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