minor
\mi.nɔʁ\
The verdict
“minor” has 7 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #37,926. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #37,926
- frequency rank, French
- 5,038
- “M” headwords
- 7
- tracked misspellings
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Par opposition au major d’une classe ou d’une promotion, celui des élèves qui a les plus mauvaises notes, le dernier de la classe.
Corpus desk
Index FR-minor · minor · French
minor · rank #37,926 · 7 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-MID #37,926
- LEN-MID 5 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-MID 7 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,038
- PHOTO-FINISH milord
Nearest frequency peer: milord (-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 « minor »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- migrateurs
migrateurs
62,078 corpus weight
- migré
migré
62,077 corpus weight
- milord
milord
62,076 corpus weight
- minor
minor
62,075 corpus weight
- MMS
MMS
62,074 corpus weight
- mobilisant
mobilisant
62,073 corpus weight
What this shows « minor » 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 | minor |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \mi.nɔʁ\ |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #37,926 |
| Misspellings tracked | 7 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « minor »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 7 spelling variants around minor (IPA \mi.nɔʁ\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #37,926 among 5,038 “M” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Par opposition au major d’une classe ou d’une promotion, celui des élèves qui a les plus mauvaises notes, le dernier de la classe.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 7 likely wrong-spelling variants for minor, with forms such as "imnor", "minnor", and "minorr". 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. It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "mir", "mio", "mono", 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 minor, spelled M-I-N-O-R.
Definition
- 1Par opposition au major d’une classe ou d’une promotion, celui des élèves qui a les plus mauvaises notes, le dernier de la classe.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how minor appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Le minor taffeur est celui qui travaille en se donnant du mal mais son échec est par là même d'autant plus retentissant car signe de carences intellectuelles ou physiques notoires.
Le minor glandeur est fier de son état et ne remet pas en cause son mode de vie devant l'arrivée des mauvaises notes et reste insensible à toute critique sur son travail.
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- imnor
- minnor
- minorr
- minro
- mionr
- mminor
- mnior
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of minor - 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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