minutie
\mi.ny.si\
The verdict
“minutie” has 9 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #36,497. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #36,497
- frequency rank, French
- 5,038
- “M” headwords
- 9
- tracked misspellings
- 5
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Chose de peu d’importance.
Corpus desk
Index FR-minutie · minutie · French
minutie · rank #36,497 · 9 variants · 5 confusables
- FREQ-MID #36,497
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 5 pairs
- VAR-MID 9 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,038
- PHOTO-FINISH mic
Nearest frequency peer: mic (-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 « minutie »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- mentionnait
mentionnait
63,507 corpus weight
- Meryl
Meryl
63,506 corpus weight
- mic
mic
63,505 corpus weight
- minutie
minutie
63,504 corpus weight
- Montaigu
Montaigu
63,503 corpus weight
- moralisation
moralisation
63,502 corpus weight
What this shows « minutie » 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 | minutie |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \mi.ny.si\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #36,497 |
| Misspellings tracked | 9 |
| Confusable pairs | 5 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « minutie »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 9 spelling variants around minutie (IPA \mi.ny.si\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #36,497 among 5,038 “M” headwords. Wiktionary lists 3 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 9 likely wrong-spelling variants for minutie, with forms such as "imnutie", "minnutie", and "mintuie". 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 5 confusable-pair relationships, "minutieux", "minute", "minuit", and more, since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
No borrowing history is documented for this entry, so its spelling pattern is best understood through pronunciation rather than a traceable origin. The correct French form is minutie, spelled M-I-N-U-T-I-E.
Definition
- 1Chose de peu d’importance.
- 2Application attentive aux menus détails.
- 3Point caractéristique formé par la disposition des lignes papillaires.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how minutie appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Le teint de madame de Chasteller avait cette fraîcheur inimitable qui semble annoncer une âme trop haut placée pour être troublée par les minuties vaniteuses et les petites haines d’un bal de province.
L'essentiel pour les jésuites, c'était d'affaiblir, d'amoindrir, de rendre les âmes faibles et fausses, de faire des petits très-petits, et les simples idiots ; une âme nourrie de minuties, amusées de brimborions, devait être facile à conduire.
Synonyms
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- imnutie
- minnutie
- mintuie
- minuite
- minutei
- minuttie
- miuntie
- mminutie
- mniutie
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of minutie - expressed in single-character edits (insert, delete, or swap one letter). Bigger bars stand out at a glance; a one-edit slip is the hardest to catch.
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 (9 here; floor ≥5).