minuit
\mi.nɥi\
The verdict
“minuit” has 8 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #4,085. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #4,085
- frequency rank, French
- 5,038
- “M” headwords
- 8
- tracked misspellings
- 9
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Heure située au milieu de la nuit, à la limite de deux jours.
Corpus desk
Index FR-minuit · minuit · French
minuit · rank #4,085 · 8 variants · 9 confusables
- FREQ-COMMON #4,085
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 9 pairs
- VAR-MID 8 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,038
- PHOTO-FINISH mineurs
Nearest frequency peer: mineurs (-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 « minuit »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- légumes
légumes
95,919 corpus weight
- maîtres
maîtres
95,918 corpus weight
- mineurs
mineurs
95,917 corpus weight
- minuit
minuit
95,916 corpus weight
- motifs
motifs
95,915 corpus weight
- nationalité
nationalité
95,914 corpus weight
What this shows « minuit » siège parmi ces pairs FrequencyWords; la profondeur des fautes est suivie à part dans le graphique d'édition.
Visual similarity to commonly confused words
How many letter changes separate each confused pair (Levenshtein distance, normalized).
Source: PlainSpell confusable corpus (Wiktionary, CC BY-SA).
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | minuit |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \mi.nɥi\ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #4,085 |
| Misspellings tracked | 8 |
| Confusable pairs | 9 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « minuit »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 8 spelling variants around minuit (IPA \mi.nɥi\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #4,085 among 5,038 “M” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Heure située au milieu de la nuit, à la limite de deux jours.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 8 likely wrong-spelling variants for minuit, with forms such as "imnuit", "miniut", and "minnuit". 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 9 confusable-pair relationships, "minus", "minute", "minutie", and more, a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, so its spelling pattern is best understood through pronunciation rather than a traceable origin. The correct French form is minuit, spelled M-I-N-U-I-T.
Definition
- 1Heure située au milieu de la nuit, à la limite de deux jours.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how minuit appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
[…] ; les places et les rues attenantes, habituellement si solitaires dès que neuf heures sonnaient à Saint-Germain-l’Auxerrois, étaient, quoiqu’il fût minuit, encombrées de populaire.
[…], rien ne resplendit plus, après minuit, que cinq ou six débits mal fréquentés dont l'éclairage ourle le trottoir d'un morne flamboiement.
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- imnuit
- miniut
- minnuit
- minuitt
- minuti
- miunit
- mminuit
- mniuit
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of minuit - measured in single-character edits (insert, delete, or substitute a letter). Larger bars are easier to catch; one-edit slips are the sneakiest.
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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Similar French words by spelling shape
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Same letter count
Frequency-ranked French headwords with 6 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (8 here; floor ≥5).