Mille

German, noun/ˈmɪlə/

Mille is a German feminine noun meaning “synonym of tausend (“thousand”), almost exclusively used of money: grand” (English Wiktionary, September 2026).

What does Mille mean in English?

noun

1
colloquialfemininesynonym of tausend (“thousand”), almost exclusively used of money: grand
Der Wagen ist höchstens noch fünf Mille wert.
2
feminineproscribedraresynonym of Million (“million”)

Source: English Wiktionary, German section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).

How do you pronounce Mille?

/ˈmɪlə/

Sources: English Wiktionary, German Wiktionary (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.

How common is Mille in German?

Mille appears 1.9 times per million words in written German.

Mille0.0010.010.11101001,00010,000

rarerper million words of written Germanmore common

Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).