Which to use
“minerai” and “minerais” are a confusable French pair: similar on the page, but distinct in meaning, check the gloss before you choose.
- #11,806
- “minerai” frequency rank
- #23,610
- “minerais” frequency rank
- 35416
- confusion score
Side-by-Side Comparison
| Feature | minerai | minerais |
|---|---|---|
| Definition | Composé métallique tel qu’on le retire de la mine. | Pluriel de minerai. |
Same sound, different letters: minerai vs minerais
Muted letters are shared; highlighted letters are the only spelling cue when pronunciation matches. Shared run: 7 letters. minerai runs 7 letters (CVCVCVV) against minerais's 8 (CVCVCVVC) - the length gap alone is often enough to separate them once you know to check it.
Homophone desk: minerai vs minerais
This is the hard kind. minerai and minerais are pronounced identically (\min.ʁɛ\) and both work as anoun. 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) - “minerai” sits inside “minerais”. Our composite confusion score for this pair is 35416, derived from the frequency rank of both members and their visual similarity.
minerai is recorded at frequency rank #11,806, classified as anoun, pronounced \min.ʁɛ\. minerais is at rank #23,610, tagged as anoun, pronounced \min.ʁɛ\.
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 35416, this pair ranks #276,914 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs - roughly mid-pack for confusability.
Orthographic DNA of minerai vs minerais
Shared letters: aeimnr. Private to "minerai": -. Private to "minerais": s.
"minerai" · 7 letters · shape CVCVCVV · "minerais" · 8 letters · shape CVCVCVVC
Known mistypes of this pair
Frequently Asked Questions
Do "minerai" and "minerais" mean the same thing in a sentence?
In ordinary French text, does "minerai" or "minerais" 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 "minerai" with definition, IPA, and generated misspellings. Word entry
- Full dictionary entry for "minerais" - compare definitions side by side with the headword page. Word entry
- This pair ranks #276,914 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs in this corpus vintage. Corpus statistics
- "minerai" and "minerais" also get mixed up with nearby pairs, the highest-scored neighbour is "mangerais vs minerais". 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 #276,914 of 440,172 scored French pairs, corpus vintage 2026-09-03, not spelling advice.