mirande
\mi.ʁɑ̃d\
The verdict
“mirande” is uncommon French (frequency #70,847 among 5,038 “M” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #70,847
- frequency rank, French
- 5,038
- “M” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Place ou construction d’où l’on a une vue dégagée vers les alentours et destinée à l’observation. ^([1])
Corpus desk
Index FR-mirande · mirande · French
mirande · rank #70,847 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #70,847
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,038
- PHOTO-FINISH mirabelles
Nearest frequency peer: mirabelles (-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 « mirande »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- minimas
minimas
29,157 corpus weight
- minots
minots
29,156 corpus weight
- mirabelles
mirabelles
29,155 corpus weight
- mirande
mirande
29,154 corpus weight
- mirko
mirko
29,153 corpus weight
- mitis
mitis
29,151 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « mirande » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | mirande |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \mi.ʁɑ̃d\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #70,847 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « mirande » en français
Rare enough to double-check
mirande is uncommon French at frequency #70,847 among 5,038 “M” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \mi.ʁɑ̃d\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for mirande, which points to an orthography that plays by predictable French rules. Our dataset records no confusable match here, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
This entry's etymology isn't recorded, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct French form is mirande, spelled M-I-R-A-N-D-E.
Definition
- 1Place ou construction d’où l’on a une vue dégagée vers les alentours et destinée à l’observation. ^([1])
- 2Fenêtre cintrée se trouvant au plus haut étage sous le toit.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how mirande appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Pour refouler ces proscrits, qu’on appelait des brigands, les Français élevèrent encore, dans le terminaire d’Escouloubre, une mirande, ou tour d’observation, qu’ils appelèrent le Fort-Royal.
[…] la maison avec ou sans fenêtres en croisée de pierre, mais avec dernier étage orné de ces ouvertures cintrées constituant la mirande toulousaine.
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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Frequency-ranked French headwords with 7 letters (nearest by frequency rank).