minuterie
\mi.ny.tʁi\
The verdict
“minuterie” is uncommon French (frequency #52,200 among 5,038 “M” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #52,200
- frequency rank, French
- 5,038
- “M” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Ensemble de mécanisme qui, dans une horloge ou une montre, mettent en communication les diverses aiguilles avec l’organe moteur.
Corpus desk
Index FR-minuterie · minuterie · French
minuterie · rank #52,200 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #52,200
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-5 5 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,038
- PHOTO-FINISH militarisme
Nearest frequency peer: militarisme (-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 « minuterie »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- milicien
milicien
47,803 corpus weight
- militarisme
militarisme
47,802 corpus weight
- minuterie
minuterie
47,801 corpus weight
- mirabelle
mirabelle
47,800 corpus weight
- mitt
mitt
47,799 corpus weight
- moc
moc
47,798 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « minuterie » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | minuterie |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \mi.ny.tʁi\ |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #52,200 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « minuterie » en français
Rare enough to double-check
minuterie is uncommon French at frequency #52,200 among 5,038 “M” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \mi.ny.tʁi\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
No generated misspelling entries exist for minuterie in our index, suggesting the orthography follows predictable French patterns. We don't track a confusable pairing for this entry, which typically means the spelling is too distinctive to be mistaken for another word.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, so any spelling logic here comes from how the word's sounds map to letters, not a documented origin story. The correct French form is minuterie, spelled M-I-N-U-T-E-R-I-E.
Definition
- 1Ensemble de mécanisme qui, dans une horloge ou une montre, mettent en communication les diverses aiguilles avec l’organe moteur.
- 2Appareil qui règle le temps, dans son moment et dans sa durée, pendant lequel fonctionne un appareil électrique.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how minuterie appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Vous avez de la lumière? La minuterie ne fonctionne pas!
Vous pouvez utiliser une minuterie réglée sur 5 minutes.
This word in other languages
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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