minot
\mi.no\
The verdict
“minot” is uncommon French (frequency #52,834 among 5,038 “M” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #52,834
- frequency rank, French
- 5,038
- “M” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Arc-boutant faisant saillie à chaque épaule d’un navire sur lequel s’amure la voile de misaine.
Corpus desk
Index FR-minot · minot · French
minot · rank #52,834 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #52,834
- LEN-MID 5 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,038
- PHOTO-FINISH minimums
Nearest frequency peer: minimums (-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 « minot »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- mignot
mignot
47,171 corpus weight
- minent
minent
47,170 corpus weight
- minimalistes
minimalistes
47,169 corpus weight
- minimums
minimums
47,168 corpus weight
- minot
minot
47,167 corpus weight
- Mississipi
Mississipi
47,166 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « minot » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | minot |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \mi.no\ |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #52,834 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « minot » en français
Rare enough to double-check
minot is uncommon French at frequency #52,834 among 5,038 “M” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \mi.no\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Arc-boutant faisant saillie à chaque épaule d’un navire sur lequel s’amure la voile de misaine.".
minot doesn't appear in our generated misspelling index, since its letter sequence doesn't invite the usual edit-distance slips. We don't track a confusable pairing for this entry, since no other headword is close enough in sound or shape to pair with it.
This entry's etymology isn't recorded, 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 minot, spelled M-I-N-O-T.
Definition
- 1Arc-boutant faisant saillie à chaque épaule d’un navire sur lequel s’amure la voile de misaine.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how minot appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Quant au trois-mâts, il a surtout souffert dans les hauts ; la guibre, la poulaine, les minots, le jas de l’ancre à bâbord, tout ça cassé.
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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