Minnesota

\mi.ne.sɔ.ta\

/\mi.ne.sɔ.ta\/ name

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The verdict

“Minnesota” has 11 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #15,683. The variants make it a useful spelling check.

#15,683
frequency rank, French
5,038
“M” headwords
11
tracked misspellings

According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Un des cinquante États des États-Unis d’Amérique (code postal MN), bordé par le Canada (Manitoba et Ontario) au nord, le lac Supérieur au nord-est, le Wisconsin à l’est, l’Iowa au sud, le Dakota du...

Corpus desk

Index FR-minnesota · Minnesota · French

Minnesota · rank #15,683 · 11 variants · 0 confusables

  • FREQ-MID #15,683
  • LEN-LONG 9 letters
  • VOW-4 4 vowels
  • CONFUS-0 No pairs
  • VAR-MID 11 variants
  • BOOK-DENSE 5,038
  • PHOTO-FINISH mile

Nearest frequency peer: mile (-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 « Minnesota »

Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin

corpus weight

What this shows « Minnesota » siège parmi ces pairs FrequencyWords; la profondeur des fautes est suivie à part dans le graphique d'édition.

Source FrequencyWords open word-frequency list As of September 3, 2026
Key facts for Minnesota
PropertyValue
HeadwordMinnesota
LanguageFrench
Part of speechProper noun
IPA\mi.ne.sɔ.ta\
Letters9
Frequency rank#15,683
Misspellings tracked11
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « Minnesota »

Cette échelle va du noyau du français courant (gauche) jusqu'à la traîne des formes rares (droite).Minnesotase place ici:

#1#100#1K#10K#100K
← used constantlyrarely used →

Les tics avancent en logarithme; chacun est de l'ordre de dix fois plus rare. Dans la même bande de rareté figurent « mile » (#15,682), « modifiées » (#15,684), « mettrai » (#15,681). Parmi 5,038 lemmes en « M », « Minnesota » est au #15,683. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

A misspelling magnet

The generator records 11 spelling variants around Minnesota (IPA \mi.ne.sɔ.ta\), aproper noun. Corpus frequency is #15,683 among 5,038 “M” headwords. Wiktionary lists 2 senses, so context still picks the gloss.

Our generated misspelling index lists 11 likely wrong-spelling variants for Minnesota, with forms such as "imnnesota", "minensota", and "minesota". Every one of these variants traces to a single-character edit -- an added or dropped letter, a swapped consonant, or a vowel swap -- the kind of slip a spell-checker is built to catch. Our dataset records no confusable match here, suggesting its spelling stands apart enough that readers rarely confuse it with something else.

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 Minnesota, spelled M-I-N-N-E-S-O-T-A.

Definition

  1. 1
    Un des cinquante États des États-Unis d’Amérique (code postal MN), bordé par le Canada (Manitoba et Ontario) au nord, le lac Supérieur au nord-est, le Wisconsin à l’est, l’Iowa au sud, le Dakota du Sud au sud-ouest, et le Dakota du Nord au nord-ouest, et dont la capitale est Saint Paul.
  2. 2
    Affluent du Mississippi.

Recorded use

Wiktionary examples

These source excerpts show how Minnesota appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.

  1. D’année en année la région propre à la culture des céréales s’étend de plus en plus vers le nord. Le Dakota, le Minnesota, le Nebraska et le Manitoba produisent aujourd’hui d’immenses quantités de blé pour lesquelles le débouché le plus voisin est Duluth, à la tête du lac Supérieur.
  2. Dans le centre du pays, les températures ont ainsi déjà atteint des records pendant le week-end avec -45 degrés Celsius dans certaines contrées du Minnesota, l'un des États les plus froids des États-Unis.

This word in other languages

Minnesota(English)Minnesota(Deutsch)

Common misspellings

Also misspelled as:

  • imnnesota
  • minensota
  • minesota
  • minneosta
  • minnesoat
  • minnesotta
  • minnessota
  • minnestoa
  • minnseota
  • mminnesota
  • mninesota

Misspelling Pattern Breakdown

How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of Minnesota - expressed in single-character edits (insert, delete, or swap one letter). Bigger bars stand out at a glance; a one-edit slip is the hardest to catch.

imnnesota2minensota2minesota1minneosta2minnesoat2minnesotta1minnessota1minnestoa2
Edit distance from "Minnesota"

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.

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "Minnesota"?
"Minnesota" is spelled M-I-N-N-E-S-O-T-A. The IPA pronunciation is \mi.ne.sɔ.ta\.
What does "Minnesota" mean?
As a proper noun, "Minnesota" means: Un des cinquante États des États-Unis d’Amérique (code postal MN), bordé par le Canada (Manitoba et Ontario) au nord, le lac Supérieur au nord-est, le Wisconsin à l’est, l’Iowa au sud, le Dakota du...
What are common misspellings of "Minnesota"?
Common misspellings include "imnnesota", "minensota", "minesota", "minneosta", "minnesoat". The correct spelling is "Minnesota".
How do you pronounce "Minnesota"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "Minnesota" is \mi.ne.sɔ.ta\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "Minnesota" come from?
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Similar French words by spelling shape

Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "Minnesota", not the corpus desk frequency band.

Same letter count

Frequency-ranked French headwords with 9 letters (nearest by frequency rank).

modifiées#15,684macédoine#15,673pastorale#15,708patinoire#15,710

Similar misspelling depth

Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (11 here; floor ≥5).

motards11 variantsinvoquer11 variantsparvenue11 variantspatinage11 variants

Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org) Structured Wiktionary extract

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list