minorité

\mi.nɔ.ʁi.te\

/\mi.nɔ.ʁi.te\/ noun

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The verdict

“minorité” has 12 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #5,892. The variants make it a useful spelling check.

#5,892
frequency rank, French
5,038
“M” headwords
12
tracked misspellings
2
confusable pairs

According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Le petit nombre, par opposition à majorité.

Corpus desk

Index FR-minorite · minorité · French

minorité · rank #5,892 · 12 variants · 2 confusables

  • FREQ-COMMON #5,892
  • LEN-LONG 8 letters
  • VOW-4 4 vowels
  • CONFUS-LOW 2 pairs
  • VAR-MID 12 variants
  • BOOK-DENSE 5,038
  • PHOTO-FINISH mosquée

Nearest frequency peer: mosquée (+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 « minorité »

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

corpus weight

What this shows « minorité » 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

Visual similarity to commonly confused words

How many letter changes separate each confused pair (Levenshtein distance, normalized).

minorité vs minorités
89% similar
minorité vs majorité
75% similar

Source: PlainSpell confusable corpus (Wiktionary, CC BY-SA).

Key facts for minorité
PropertyValue
Headwordminorité
LanguageFrench
Part of speechNoun
IPA\mi.nɔ.ʁi.te\
Letters8
Frequency rank#5,892
Misspellings tracked12
Confusable pairs2
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « minorité »

De gauche à droite: le peu qui porte la parole quotidienne, puis la longue queue quasi invisible.minoritése place ici:

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

L'échelle est logarithmique (chaque tic ≈ 10× plus rare). Dans la même bande de rareté figurent « mosquée » (#5,893), « majoritairement » (#5,890), « majeurs » (#5,889). Parmi 5,038 lemmes en « M », « minorité » est au #5,892. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

A misspelling magnet

The generator records 12 spelling variants around minorité (IPA \mi.nɔ.ʁi.te\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #5,892 among 5,038 “M” headwords. Wiktionary lists 5 senses, so context still picks the gloss.

Our generated misspelling index lists 12 likely wrong-spelling variants for minorité, with forms such as "imnorité", "minnorité", and "minoirté". 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 2 confusable-pair relationships, "minorités", "majorité", where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.

This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, so its spelling is easiest explained by how it's pronounced rather than where it came from. The correct French form is minorité, spelled M-I-N-O-R-I-T-É.

Definition

  1. 1
    Le petit nombre, par opposition à majorité.
  2. 2
    Partie la moins nombreuse d’une assemblée, qui combat certaines opinions, certaines mesures préférées par la partie la plus nombreuse.
  3. 3
    État d’une personne mineure.
  4. 4
    Minorité des souverains ou temps qu’a duré cette minorité.
  5. 5
    Groupe social dominé.

Recorded use

Wiktionary examples

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

  1. L’acquiescence active ou passive d'un vaste nombre d’Allemands au nazisme, la facile soumission de tous, sauf d'une brave et infime minorité, sont des faits d'une profonde signification historique.
  2. C'est ce qui permit à une minorité conquérante, politiquement et socialement dominante, de populations surtout chrétiennes, païennes et zoroastriennes, de consolider l'Islam et de soumettre rapidement les mondes sémitiques et iranien.

This word in other languages

minority(English)minoría(Español)Minderheit(Deutsch)

Common misspellings

Also misspelled as:

  • imnorité
  • minnorité
  • minoirté
  • minorite
  • minoritté
  • minoriét
  • minorrité
  • minortié
  • minroité
  • mionrité
  • mminorité
  • mniorité

Misspelling Pattern Breakdown

How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of minorité - 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.

imnorité2minnorité1minoirté2minorite1minoritté1minoriét2minorrité1minortié2
Edit distance from "minorité"

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 "minorité"?
"minorité" is spelled M-I-N-O-R-I-T-É. The IPA pronunciation is \mi.nɔ.ʁi.te\.
What does "minorité" mean?
As a noun, "minorité" means: Le petit nombre, par opposition à majorité.
What words are commonly confused with "minorité"?
"minorité" is commonly confused with "minorités", "majorité". These words look or sound similar but have different meanings. PlainSpell provides detailed comparisons for each pair.
How do you pronounce "minorité"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "minorité" is \mi.nɔ.ʁi.te\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "minorité" come from?
"minorité" is a French word. PlainSpell's reference spans five languages -- English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, and German -- with definitions, pronunciations, and spelling data for each.
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Similar French words by spelling shape

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

Same letter count

Frequency-ranked French headwords with 8 letters (nearest by frequency rank).

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Similar misspelling depth

Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (12 here; floor ≥5).

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

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list