mirepoix
\miʁ.pwa\
The verdict
“mirepoix” is uncommon French (frequency #58,762 among 5,038 “M” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #58,762
- frequency rank, French
- 5,038
- “M” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Bouillon à base de plusieurs sortes de légumes, lardons, et assaisonnements, qui sert pour les sauces liées ou claires.
Corpus desk
Index FR-mirepoix · mirepoix · French
mirepoix · rank #58,762 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #58,762
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,038
- PHOTO-FINISH mite
Nearest frequency peer: mite (+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 « mirepoix »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- minets
minets
41,242 corpus weight
- minuteur
minuteur
41,241 corpus weight
- mirepoix
mirepoix
41,239 corpus weight
- mite
mite
41,238 corpus weight
- modifiable
modifiable
41,237 corpus weight
- Mojave
Mojave
41,236 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « mirepoix » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | mirepoix |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \miʁ.pwa\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #58,762 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « mirepoix » en français
Rare enough to double-check
mirepoix is uncommon French at frequency #58,762 among 5,038 “M” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \miʁ.pwa\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
Zero misspellings are on record for mirepoix in our index, a straightforward case of a spelling with little room for common typos. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, since no other headword is close enough in sound or shape to pair with it.
No borrowing history is documented for this entry, so its spelling is best read as a straightforward mapping from sound to letter. The correct French form is mirepoix, spelled M-I-R-E-P-O-I-X.
Definition
- 1Bouillon à base de plusieurs sortes de légumes, lardons, et assaisonnements, qui sert pour les sauces liées ou claires.
- 2Taille des légumes en dés.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how mirepoix appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Utilisant la même technique que la brunoise et la macédoine, la mirepoix correspond à une taille de légumes en cubes de 1 à 1,5 cm de côté.
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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