Which to use
“milder” is an adjective and “mille” is a num - they look or sound alike but fill different roles in a sentence.
- #25,670
- “milder” frequency rank
- #25,671
- “mille” frequency rank
- 51341
- confusion score
Side-by-Side Comparison
| Feature | milder | mille |
|---|---|---|
| Definition | Nominativ Singular Maskulinum der starken Deklination des Positivs des Adjektivs mild | tausend |
Letter map: milder vs mille
Shared letters muted; letters that set milder and mille apart highlighted. Shared run: 4. milder runs 6 letters (CVCCVC) against mille's 5 (CVCCV) - the length gap alone is often enough to separate them once you know to check it.
Part-of-speech tell for milder / mille
Our dataset has no pronunciation recorded for both members, so the reliable separator here is grammatical: milder is anadjective and milleanum. On the page they differ by 1 letter(s) in length. Our composite confusion score for this pair is 51341, derived from the frequency rank of both members and their visual similarity.
milder is recorded at frequency rank #25,670, classified as anadj, pronounced [ˈmɪldɐ]. mille is at rank #25,671, tagged as anum, pronounced […].
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 51341, this pair ranks #1,139,177 of 2,006,359 scored German confusable pairs - roughly mid-pack for confusability.
Orthographic DNA of milder vs mille
Shared letters: eilm. Private to "milder": dr. Private to "mille": -.
"milder" · 6 letters · shape CVCCVC · "mille" · 5 letters · shape CVCCV
Known mistypes of this pair
Frequently Asked Questions
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After this comparison
You've compared "milder" and "mille". Here's where to go from here.
- Full dictionary entry for "milder" with definition, IPA, and generated misspellings. Word entry
- Full dictionary entry for "mille" - compare definitions side by side with the headword page. Word entry
- This pair ranks #1,139,177 of 2,006,359 scored German confusable pairs in this corpus vintage. Corpus statistics
- "milder" and "mille" also get mixed up with nearby pairs, the highest-scored neighbour is "mille vs puzzles". 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 #1,139,177 of 2,006,359 scored German pairs, corpus vintage 2026-09-03, not spelling advice.