minute
Letters
6 characters
Frequency Rank
#1,778
in French word usage
Misspellings
8
tracked variants
Confusables
20
similar word pairs
minute is aFrenchnoun. It means: Unité de mesure de temps, compatible avec le Système international, et qui compte soixante secondes. Son symbole est min. Pronounced \mi.nyt\. It ranks #1,778 in French word frequency. Often confused with muté and monte.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | minute |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \mi.nyt\ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #1,778 |
| Misspellings tracked | 8 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for minute is 6 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \mi.nyt\. Corpus data places it at rank #1,778 in overall French word frequency, indicating it appears regularly in written and spoken text.Wiktionary records 9 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 8 documented wrong-spelling variants for minute, with forms such as "imnute", "minnute", and "mintue". Each variant represents a distinct typo pattern that appears often enough in corpora to be worth flagging, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution.It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "muté", "monte", "mixte", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. For readers arriving here from a spelling check, the authoritative guidance is: the correct French form is minute, spelled M-I-N-U-T-E, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Unité de mesure de temps, compatible avec le Système international, et qui compte soixante secondes. Son symbole est min.
- 2Instant ; temps très court.
- 3Unité de mesure d’angle plan, égale à la soixantième partie d’un degré. Aussi appelée minute d’arc, son symbole est ′.
- 4Unité de mesure d’angle plan, égale à la soixantième partie d’une heure d’ascension droite (elle est quinze fois plus grande que la minute d’arc). Aussi appelée minute d’ascension droite, son symbole est min.
- 5Écriture en caractères menus.
- 6Original d’un acte authentique conservé par l’autorité qui le détient et qui ne peut s’en séparer (acte notarié dans le cas d’un notaire, décision de justice dans le cas d’une juridiction…)
- 7Procès-verbal original d'une expérimentation ou d'un essai.
- 8Document graphique original, élaboré de façon précise, de présentation parfois imparfaite, servant de base pour la préparation d’une carte.
- 9Original, brouillon d’une lettre, ce qu’on écrit d’abord pour en faire ensuite une copie et le mettre plus au net.
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Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: imnute,minnute,mintue,minuet,minutte,miunte,mminute,mniute
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
Relative frequency of common misspelling types for minute
Misspelling Variants of "minute"
Frequency rank: #1,778 in French
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