minuteur
\mi.ny.tœʁ\
The verdict
“minuteur” is uncommon French (frequency #58,760 among 5,038 “M” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #58,760
- frequency rank, French
- 5,038
- “M” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Officier qui dresse les minutes de la chancellerie apostolique.
Corpus desk
Index FR-minuteur · minuteur · French
minuteur · rank #58,760 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #58,760
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,038
- PHOTO-FINISH minets
Nearest frequency peer: minets (-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 « minuteur »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- MHSC
MHSC
41,245 corpus weight
- millefeuille
millefeuille
41,244 corpus weight
- minets
minets
41,242 corpus weight
- minuteur
minuteur
41,241 corpus weight
- mirepoix
mirepoix
41,239 corpus weight
- mite
mite
41,238 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « minuteur » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | minuteur |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \mi.ny.tœʁ\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #58,760 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « minuteur » en français
Rare enough to double-check
minuteur is uncommon French at frequency #58,760 among 5,038 “M” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \mi.ny.tœʁ\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
minuteur doesn't appear in our generated misspelling index, typically a sign the spelling maps closely to how the word sounds. This entry stands alone in our confusable dataset, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
No documented word history exists for this headword, so its spelling is easiest explained by how it's pronounced rather than where it came from. The correct French form is minuteur, spelled M-I-N-U-T-E-U-R.
Definition
- 1Officier qui dresse les minutes de la chancellerie apostolique.
- 2Ustensile de cuisine permettant de contrôler les temps de cuisson.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how minuteur appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
À Pierremont, les voix finissaient toujours par monter dans les aigus, les portes claquaient, et au moment où l’on en venait presque aux mains, le minuteur en forme de pomme sonnait pour nous rappeler qu’il était grand temps de sortir le gratin du four.
Elles ouvrent grand leur portefeuille, leurs jambes, leur bouche, et reprochent ensuite au garçon d’avoir un minuteur à la place du cœur.
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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