Minos
\mi.nos\
The verdict
“Minos” is uncommon French (frequency #55,442 among 5,038 “M” headwords), classed as a proper noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #55,442
- frequency rank, French
- 5,038
- “M” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Roi légendaire de Crète, fils de Zeus et d’Europe selon la mythologie grecque.
Corpus desk
Index FR-minos · Minos · French
Minos · rank #55,442 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #55,442
- LEN-MID 5 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,038
- PHOTO-FINISH minions
Nearest frequency peer: minions (-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 « Minos »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- milanaise
milanaise
44,562 corpus weight
- minions
minions
44,560 corpus weight
- Minos
Minos
44,559 corpus weight
- modernistes
modernistes
44,557 corpus weight
- moldaves
moldaves
44,555 corpus weight
- monogame
monogame
44,554 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « Minos » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Minos |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| IPA | \mi.nos\ |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #55,442 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « Minos » en français
Rare enough to double-check
Minos is uncommon French at frequency #55,442 among 5,038 “M” headwords, classed as aproper noun, transcribed \mi.nos\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Roi légendaire de Crète, fils de Zeus et d’Europe selon la mythologie grecque.".
No misspelling variants are generated for Minos in our index, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. This entry stands alone in our confusable dataset, which typically means the spelling is too distinctive to be mistaken for another word.
No documented word history exists for this headword, so its spelling is best read as a straightforward mapping from sound to letter. The correct French form is Minos, spelled M-I-N-O-S.
Definition
- 1Roi légendaire de Crète, fils de Zeus et d’Europe selon la mythologie grecque.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how Minos appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
La fille de Minos et de Pasiphaé
This word in other languages
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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