milliliter
"milliliter" is a 10-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“milliliter” is uncommon English (frequency #79,760 among 4,057 “M” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #79,760
- frequency rank, English
- 4,057
- “M” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Alternative form of millilitre.
Corpus desk
Index EN-milliliter · milliliter · English
milliliter · rank #79,760 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #79,760
- LEN-MEGA 10 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 4,057
- PHOTO-FINISH Millward
Nearest frequency peer: Millward (+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 “milliliter”
Sparse band: bars invert rank so rarer forms read shorter
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20,245 corpus weight
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midbrain
20,244 corpus weight
- milliliter
milliliter
20,241 corpus weight
- Millward
Millward
20,240 corpus weight
- miscreant
miscreant
20,238 corpus weight
- Miyako
Miyako
20,237 corpus weight
What this shows Long-tail view: where “milliliter” sits against similarly uncommon English ranks.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | milliliter |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| Letters | 10 |
| Frequency rank | #79,760 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Long-tail rank of “milliliter” in English
Rare enough to double-check
milliliter is uncommon English at frequency #79,760 among 4,057 “M” headwords, classed as anoun. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Alternative form of millilitre.".
Zero misspellings are on record for milliliter in our index, since its letter sequence doesn't invite the usual edit-distance slips. Our confusable-pair dataset has no match for it, suggesting its spelling stands apart enough that readers rarely confuse it with something else.
Etymologically, the entry records: From milli- + liter. The correct English form is milliliter, spelled M-I-L-L-I-L-I-T-E-R.
Definition
- 1Alternative form of millilitre.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how milliliter appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
A slurry of 10 grams of powder in 100 milliliters distilled water was carried on a cotton swab and the panels scrubbed until free from waterbreak when rinsed.
The following day, nonattached cells were harvested by centrifugation and resuspended in growth medium at a density of 1 × 10⁷ per milliliter.
Etymology
From milli- + liter.
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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