overwordExplorer
ENGLISH · A WORD WITH POSSIBILITIES

mignonette.

A plant, Reseda odorata, having greyish-green flowers with orange-coloured stamens, and exhaling a delicious fragrance. In Africa it is a low shrub, but further north it is usually an annual herb.

10 characters3 syllables approx.English language

Meaning & usage

noun/ˌmɪnjəˈnɛt/
  1. A plant, Reseda odorata, having greyish-green flowers with orange-coloured stamens, and exhaling a delicious fragrance. In Africa it is a low shrub, but further north it is usually an annual herb.

    countable · uncountable
  2. A mignonette tree (Lawsonia inermis), source of the dye henna.

    countable · uncountable
  3. A mignonette vine.

    countable · uncountable
  4. A greyish-green colour, like that of the flowers of the plant.

    countable · uncountable
  5. Short for mignonette sauce

    abbreviation · alt-of · countable · uncountable
Where this word comes from

From French mignonnette, from mignon (“dainty”) + -ette (diminutive suffix).

adj/ˌmɪnjəˈnɛt/
  1. Of a greyish-green colour, like that of the flowers of the plant.

Where this word comes from

From French mignonnette, from mignon (“dainty”) + -ette (diminutive suffix).

FROM WORD TO NAME

Try it on your idea.

mignonette has 10 characters. Say it out loud, try it alongside a description of your project, and see whether its meaning fits what you want to create.

mignonette studiomignonette workshello, mignonette

These are naming prompts. Meanings and pronunciation can vary; existing brand and domain uses have not been checked.

Explore the name generator

A word with a source.

Definitions, grammatical labels, IPA, etymology and examples: Wiktionary contributors, extracted by Kaikki / Wiktextract. Adapted under CC BY-SA 4.0. Selected fields and authored examples are shown; third-party quotations and audio are omitted. See contributor history.

Last enriched 2026-09-10. Definitions are in English. Romanizations are shown when supplied by the source; syllable estimates are omitted for unsupported scripts.