milady
/mɪˈleɪdi/
"milady" is a 6-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“milady” is uncommon English (frequency #69,249 among 4,057 “M” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #69,249
- frequency rank, English
- 4,057
- “M” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - An English noblewoman or gentlewoman; the form of address to such a person; a lady.
Corpus desk
Index EN-milady · milady · English
milady · rank #69,249 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #69,249
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 4,057
- PHOTO-FINISH microeconomics
Nearest frequency peer: microeconomics (-1 rank slots)
Read with this headword: Spelling guide for this pattern
Desk codes from Wiktionary headword shape, FrequencyWords rank tier, confusable-pair count, generated misspelling depth, letter-cohort book size, and photo-finish peer. Not a difficulty grade.
Long-tail ranks near “milady”
Sparse band: bars invert rank so rarer forms read shorter
- meron
meron
30,757 corpus weight
- miasma
miasma
30,754 corpus weight
- microeconom…
microeconomics
30,753 corpus weight
- milady
milady
30,752 corpus weight
- minke
minke
30,751 corpus weight
- MMD
MMD
30,749 corpus weight
What this shows Long-tail view: where “milady” sits against similarly uncommon English ranks.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | milady |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | /mɪˈleɪdi/ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #69,249 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Long-tail rank of “milady” in English
Rare enough to double-check
milady is uncommon English at frequency #69,249 among 4,057 “M” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed /mɪˈleɪdi/. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "An English noblewoman or gentlewoman; the form of address to such a person; a lady.".
milady has no tracked misspelling variants, suggesting the orthography follows predictable English patterns. We don't track a confusable pairing for this entry, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
Etymologically, the entry records: Partly representing a colloquial pronunciation of my + lady, partly from French milady, from English my Lady. Compare milord. The correct English form is milady, spelled M-I-L-A-D-Y.
Definition
- 1An English noblewoman or gentlewoman; the form of address to such a person; a lady.
Etymology
Partly representing a colloquial pronunciation of my + lady, partly from French milady, from English my Lady. Compare milord.
This word in other languages
Definitions, pronunciation, and etymology for this entry are drawn from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org structured extract (CC BY-SA); frequency ordering uses the FrequencyWords open word-frequency list (2018 English corpus, MIT). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.
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