milich
[mɪlɪç]
The verdict
“milich” is outside the top-ranked German vocabulary, used as a noun - the kind of word writers most often double-check.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency German
- 6
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - eine von weiblichen Säugetieren produzierte Nährflüssigkeit für Neugeborene, kann von verschiedenen Tieren auch als Lebensmittel durch Melken gewonnen werden
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | milich |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [mɪlɪç] |
| Letters | 6 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “milich” sits in German frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The German entry for milich is 6 letters long, classified as a noun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [mɪlɪç]. It sits outside the most-frequent rank tiers, which is often why uncommon words generate more spelling variants per reader. Wiktionary records 6 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
No misspelling variants are generated for milich 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 milich, spelled M-I-L-I-C-H, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1eine von weiblichen Säugetieren produzierte Nährflüssigkeit für Neugeborene, kann von verschiedenen Tieren auch als Lebensmittel durch Melken gewonnen werden
- 2ein Mischgetränk mit Hauptbestandteil Milch
- 3eine zur Verlängerung der Haltbarkeit oder für den Geschmack veränderte Milch
- 4ein weißer oder weißlicher Saft bestimmter Pflanzen und Pilze
- 5eine weiße oder weißliche Flüssigkeit, die als solche ein Gemisch verschiedener Flüssigkeiten darstellt, wobei eine der Komponenten sehr fein verteilt ist
- 6die weißliche Samenflüssigkeit des männlichen Fisches
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Definitions, pronunciation, and etymology for this entry are drawn from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org structured extract (CC BY-SA). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.
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Using “milich”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct German spelling is M-I-L-I-C-H - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
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