Milet

/[miˈleːt]/ name

Letters

5 characters

Frequency Rank

#83,066

in German word usage

Misspellings

0

tracked variants

Confusables

0

similar word pairs

Milet is aGermanname. It means: griechische Stadt an der Westküste Kleinasiens in der heutigen Türkei Pronounced [miˈleːt].

Key facts for Milet
PropertyValue
HeadwordMilet
LanguageGerman
Part of speechName
IPA[miˈleːt]
Letters5
Frequency rank#83,066
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Frequency rank visualization

Position of Milet in German word frequency (lower rank = more common)

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list

Spelling & Dictionary Insight

The German entry for Milet is 5 letters long, classified as aname, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [miˈleːt]. Corpus data places it at rank #83,066 in overall German word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it.The dominant gloss from Wiktionary reads: "griechische Stadt an der Westküste Kleinasiens in der heutigen Türkei".

No misspelling variants are generated for Milet in our index, suggesting the orthography follows predictable German patterns.It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.

No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. For readers arriving here from a spelling check, the authoritative guidance is: the correct German form is Milet, spelled M-I-L-E-T, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.

Definition

  1. 1
    griechische Stadt an der Westküste Kleinasiens in der heutigen Türkei

This word in other languages

Frequency rank: #83,066 in German

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "Milet"?
"Milet" is spelled M-I-L-E-T. The IPA pronunciation is [miˈleːt].
What does "Milet" mean?
As a name, "Milet" means: griechische Stadt an der Westküste Kleinasiens in der heutigen Türkei
How do you pronounce "Milet"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "Milet" is [miˈleːt]. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "Milet" come from?
"Milet" is a German word. PlainSpell covers definitions, pronunciations, and spelling data across English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, and German.
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Data Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Word ordering uses an open word-frequency list; misspelling variants are generated by edit-distance from the correct headword.