minuit
French, noun/mi.nɥi/
minuit is spelled M-I-N-U-I-T (6 letters) and appears 19 times per million words in written French, the 4,050th most frequent French word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Minuit is a French masculine noun meaning “midnight” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Heure située au milieu de la nuit, à la limite de deux jours”.
What does minuit mean in English?
noun
- 1
masculinemidnight
La nouvelle journée commence à minuit.
Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How French dictionaries define it
noun: 1. Heure située au milieu de la nuit, à la limite de deux jours.
The definition in the French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire), in French.
Source: French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire), dump of September 1, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org.
Forms of minuit
- minuits plural
- ménuit
Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce minuit?
- /mi.nɥi/
- \mi.nɥi\
- [mi.nɥi]
Sources: English Wiktionary, French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
English words that translate to minuit
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is minuit in French?
minuit appears 19 times per million words in written French.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).