minutes
\mi.nyt\
The verdict
“minutes” has 10 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #402. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #402
- frequency rank, French
- 5,038
- “M” headwords
- 10
- tracked misspellings
- 13
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Pluriel de minute.
Corpus desk
Index FR-minutes · minutes · French
minutes · rank #402 · 10 variants · 13 confusables
- FREQ-CORE #402
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 13 pairs
- VAR-MID 10 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,038
- PHOTO-FINISH long
Nearest frequency peer: long (-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 « minutes »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- choix
choix
99,602 corpus weight
- Française
Française
99,601 corpus weight
- long
long
99,600 corpus weight
- minutes
minutes
99,599 corpus weight
- retour
retour
99,598 corpus weight
- Situation
Situation
99,597 corpus weight
What this shows « minutes » 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 | minutes |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \mi.nyt\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #402 |
| Misspellings tracked | 10 |
| Confusable pairs | 13 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « minutes »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 10 spelling variants around minutes (IPA \mi.nyt\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #402 among 5,038 “M” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Pluriel de minute.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 10 likely wrong-spelling variants for minutes, with forms such as "imnutes", "minnutes", and "mintues". Every one of these variants traces to a single-character edit -- an added or dropped letter, a swapped consonant, or a vowel swap -- the kind of slip a spell-checker is built to catch. It also participates in 13 confusable-pair relationships, "mixtes", "montés", "minutie", 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 any spelling logic here comes from how the word's sounds map to letters, not a documented origin story. The correct French form is minutes, spelled M-I-N-U-T-E-S.
Definition
- 1Pluriel de minute.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how minutes appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Quelques minutes avant la fin de la première mi-temps, un joueur de Bordeaux crochète un Marseillais dans la surface de réparation. Je siffle le penalty indiscutable.
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- imnutes
- minnutes
- mintues
- minuets
- minutess
- minutse
- minuttes
- miuntes
- mminutes
- mniutes
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of minutes - counted as single-character edits (an insertion, a deletion, or a substituted letter). The larger the bar, the easier the typo is to spot; one-edit slips are the ones that sneak past readers.
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 7 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (10 here; floor ≥5).