mirettes
\mi.ʁɛt\
The verdict
“mirettes” is uncommon French (frequency #91,940 among 5,038 “M” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #91,940
- frequency rank, French
- 5,038
- “M” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Pluriel de mirette.
Corpus desk
Index FR-mirettes · mirettes · French
mirettes · rank #91,940 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #91,940
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,038
- PHOTO-FINISH minées
Nearest frequency peer: minées (-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 « mirettes »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- Minigolf
Minigolf
8,064 corpus weight
- minées
minées
8,062 corpus weight
- mirettes
mirettes
8,061 corpus weight
- mirobolants
mirobolants
8,060 corpus weight
- misons
misons
8,059 corpus weight
- mistrals
mistrals
8,058 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « mirettes » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | mirettes |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \mi.ʁɛt\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #91,940 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « mirettes » en français
Rare enough to double-check
mirettes is uncommon French at frequency #91,940 among 5,038 “M” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \mi.ʁɛt\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Pluriel de mirette.".
We couldn't generate a plausible misspelling set for mirettes, a sign its spelling follows regular French conventions. This headword has no recorded confusable partner, since its spelling is unusual enough that it doesn't cluster with a lookalike.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so its spelling is best read as a straightforward mapping from sound to letter. The correct French form is mirettes, spelled M-I-R-E-T-T-E-S.
Definition
- 1Pluriel de mirette.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how mirettes appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Tarbouif à la retrousse, de l’azur plein les mirettes, elle bat des ramasse-miettes, chuchotant : — Sûr que ça va, monsieur le commissaire ?
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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