minous
\mi.nu\
The verdict
“minous” is uncommon French (frequency #86,927 among 5,038 “M” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #86,927
- frequency rank, French
- 5,038
- “M” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Pluriel de minou.
Corpus desk
Index FR-minous · minous · French
minous · rank #86,927 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #86,927
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,038
- PHOTO-FINISH Mitte
Nearest frequency peer: Mitte (+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 « minous »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- micmacs
micmacs
13,077 corpus weight
- Mihai
Mihai
13,076 corpus weight
- minous
minous
13,074 corpus weight
- Mitte
Mitte
13,073 corpus weight
- Miya
Miya
13,072 corpus weight
- mièvrerie
mièvrerie
13,071 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « minous » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | minous |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \mi.nu\ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #86,927 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « minous » en français
Rare enough to double-check
minous is uncommon French at frequency #86,927 among 5,038 “M” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \mi.nu\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Pluriel de minou.".
We couldn't generate a plausible misspelling set for minous, since its letter sequence doesn't invite the usual edit-distance slips. This entry stands alone in our confusable dataset, since no other headword is close enough in sound or shape to pair with it.
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 minous, spelled M-I-N-O-U-S.
Definition
- 1Pluriel de minou.
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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