Which to use
“mienne” and “miennes” are a confusable French pair: similar on the page, but distinct in meaning, check the gloss before you choose.
- #4,961
- “mienne” frequency rank
- #15,442
- “miennes” frequency rank
- 20403
- confusion score
Side-by-Side Comparison
| Feature | mienne | miennes |
|---|---|---|
| Definition | Féminin singulier de mien. | Féminin pluriel de mien. |
Same sound, different letters: mienne vs miennes
Muted letters are shared; highlighted letters are the only spelling cue when pronunciation matches. Shared run: 6 letters.
Ear matches; page differs - mienne and miennes
This is the hard kind. mienne and miennes are pronounced identically (\mjɛn\) and both work as anadjective. Neither the ear nor the grammar will rescue you; only the meaning does, so the glosses below are the whole decision. They differ by 1 extra letter(s) - “mienne” sits inside “miennes”. Our composite confusion score for this pair is 20403, derived from the frequency rank of both members and their visual similarity.
mienne is recorded at frequency rank #4,961, classified as anadj, pronounced \mjɛn\. miennes is at rank #15,442, tagged as anadj, pronounced \mjɛn\.
Glosses for this pair are partially populated in our dataset, but the full side-by-side definitions above should still guide you to the right choice.
With a confusion score of 20403, this pair ranks #368,450 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs - a relatively easy-to-tell-apart pair.
Orthographic DNA of mienne vs miennes
Shared letters: eimn. Private to "mienne": -. Private to "miennes": s.
"mienne" · 6 letters · shape CVVCCV · "miennes" · 7 letters · shape CVVCCVC
Known mistypes of this pair
Frequently Asked Questions
Do "mienne" and "miennes" mean the same thing in a sentence?
In ordinary French text, does "mienne" or "miennes" show up more?
What to do next
Sound matches; spelling doesn't. Use the exits below to lock the right form or check a cousin pair.
- Full dictionary entry for "mienne" with definition, IPA, and generated misspellings. Word entry
- Full dictionary entry for "miennes" - compare definitions side by side with the headword page. Word entry
- This pair ranks #368,450 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs in this corpus vintage. Corpus statistics
- "mienne" and "miennes" also get mixed up with nearby pairs, the highest-scored neighbour is "maliennes vs miennes". Nearby pair
- Recorded mistypes exist for at least one side of this pair, useful when a spell-checker or OCR lands on the wrong form. See mistypes
Confusion rank #368,450 of 440,172 scored French pairs, corpus vintage 2026-09-03, not spelling advice.