Miletus
/maɪˈliːtəs/
"miletus" is a 7-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“Miletus” is uncommon English (frequency #90,732 among 4,057 “M” headwords), classed as a proper noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #90,732
- frequency rank, English
- 4,057
- “M” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - ancient Greek city on the west coast of Caria, Anatolia
Corpus desk
Index EN-miletus · Miletus · English
Miletus · rank #90,732 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #90,732
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 4,057
- PHOTO-FINISH milord
Nearest frequency peer: milord (+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 “Miletus”
Sparse band: bars invert rank so rarer forms read shorter
- microbloggi…
microblogging
9,273 corpus weight
- Middlemarch
Middlemarch
9,271 corpus weight
- Miletus
Miletus
9,269 corpus weight
- milord
milord
9,268 corpus weight
- mineshaft
mineshaft
9,267 corpus weight
- Minya
Minya
9,266 corpus weight
What this shows Long-tail view: where “Miletus” sits against similarly uncommon English ranks.
| 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) |
Long-tail rank of “Miletus” in English
Rare enough to double-check
Miletus is uncommon English at frequency #90,732 among 4,057 “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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