pinot meunier
\pi.no mø.nje\
The verdict
“pinot meunier” is outside the top-ranked French vocabulary, used as a noun - the kind of word writers most often double-check.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency French
- 13
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - Cépage donnant de petites grappes de petits raisins d'un noir bleuté, à la peau épaisse et très pruinés. Son jus est incolore il est essentiellement présent dans le vignoble de Champagne. Il est is...
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | pinot meunier |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \pi.no mø.nje\ |
| Letters | 13 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “pinot meunier” sits in French frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for pinot meunier is 13 letters long, classified as a noun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \pi.no mø.nje\. It sits outside the most-frequent rank tiers, which is often why uncommon words generate more spelling variants per reader. The dominant gloss from Wiktionary reads: "Cépage donnant de petites grappes de petits raisins d'un noir bleuté, à la peau épaisse et très pruinés. Son jus est incolore il est essentiellement présent dans le vignoble de Champagne. Il est is...".
No misspelling variants are generated for pinot meunier in our index, suggesting the orthography follows predictable French patterns. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. For readers arriving here from a spelling check, the authoritative guidance is: the correct French form is pinot meunier, spelled P-I-N-O-T- -M-E-U-N-I-E-R, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Cépage donnant de petites grappes de petits raisins d'un noir bleuté, à la peau épaisse et très pruinés. Son jus est incolore il est essentiellement présent dans le vignoble de Champagne. Il est issu d'une mutation spontanéé du pinot noir. Bien que son nom officiel en France soit meunier il est connu au niveau international sous le vocable de pinot meunier. En 2009 il y en avait 11000 hectares en France et environ 2000 en Allemagne.
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- The one correct French spelling is P-I-N-O-T- -M-E-U-N-I-E-R - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
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