Miletus
/maɪˈliːtəs/
"miletus" is a 7-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“Miletus” is uncommon English (frequency #90,732 among 36,575 “M” headwords), classed as a proper noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #90,732
- frequency rank, English
- 36,575
- “M” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - ancient Greek city on the west coast of Caria, Anatolia
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Miletus |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| IPA | /maɪˈliːtəs/ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #90,732 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “Miletus” sits in English frequency
Rare enough to double-check
Miletus is uncommon English at frequency #90,732 among 36,575 “M” headwords, classed as aproper noun, transcribed /maɪˈliːtəs/. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "ancient Greek city on the west coast of Caria, Anatolia".
Miletus doesn't appear in our generated misspelling index, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. No confusable counterpart is on file for this word, a sign it's visually distinctive enough not to be mixed up with another word.
Etymologically, the entry records: From Latin Mīlētus, from Ancient Greek Μίλητος (Mílētos). The correct English form is Miletus, spelled M-I-L-E-T-U-S.
Definition
- 1ancient Greek city on the west coast of Caria, Anatolia
Etymology
From Latin Mīlētus, from Ancient Greek Μίλητος (Mílētos).
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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Using “Miletus”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct English spelling is M-I-L-E-T-U-S - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
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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.