minne
The verdict
“minne” is an uncommon French word, ranked #77,712 in French word frequency and used as a noun.
- #77,712
- frequency rank, French
- 5
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - Amour.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | minne |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #77,712 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “minne” sits in French frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for minne is 5 letters long, classified as a noun. Corpus data places it at rank #77,712 in overall French word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it. The dominant gloss from Wiktionary reads: "Amour.".
No generated misspelling entries exist for minne in our index, suggesting the orthography follows predictable French patterns. No confusable counterpart is on file for this word, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
Our source data has no etymology on file for this entry, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. The correct French form is minne, spelled M-I-N-N-E.
Definition
- 1Amour.
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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Using “minne”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct French spelling is M-I-N-N-E - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
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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.