Milly
"milly" is a 5-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“Milly” has 6 generated spelling variants in the English index at frequency #27,215. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #27,215
- frequency rank, English
- 4,057
- “M” headwords
- 6
- tracked misspellings
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - A diminutive of the female given names Mildred, Millicent, Emily, or Camilla, also used as a formal given name.
Corpus desk
Index EN-milly · Milly · English
Milly · rank #27,215 · 6 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-MID #27,215
- LEN-MID 5 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-MID 6 variants
- BOOK-MID 4,057
- PHOTO-FINISH melodrama
Nearest frequency peer: melodrama (-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.
Rank peers near misspelling magnet “Milly”
Same rarity band: useful when a typo lands on a peer headword
- Maude
Maude
72,790 corpus weight
- meager
meager
72,788 corpus weight
- melodrama
melodrama
72,787 corpus weight
- Milly
Milly
72,786 corpus weight
- minion
minion
72,784 corpus weight
- misused
misused
72,782 corpus weight
What this shows “Milly” sits among these FrequencyWords peers; misspelling depth is tracked separately in the edit-distance chart.
Visual similarity to commonly confused words
How many letter changes separate each confused pair (Levenshtein distance, normalized).
Source: PlainSpell confusable corpus (Wiktionary, CC BY-SA).
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Milly |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #27,215 |
| Misspellings tracked | 6 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency seat of misspelling magnet “Milly”
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 6 spelling variants around Milly, aproper noun. Corpus frequency is #27,215 among 4,057 “M” headwords. Dominant gloss: "A diminutive of the female given names Mildred, Millicent, Emily, or Camilla, also used as a formal given name.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 6 likely wrong-spelling variants for Milly, with forms such as "imlly", "millyy", and "mily". Each of these forms differs from the correct spelling by one small edit: a doubled letter, a dropped silent letter, or a substituted vowel. It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "milo", "mull", "moly", and more, a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.
Etymologically, the entry records: Clipping + -y. The correct English form is Milly, spelled M-I-L-L-Y.
Definition
- 1A diminutive of the female given names Mildred, Millicent, Emily, or Camilla, also used as a formal given name.
Etymology
Clipping + -y.
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- imlly
- millyy
- mily
- milyl
- mlily
- mmilly
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of Milly - counted as single-character edits (an insertion, a deletion, or a substituted letter). The larger the bar, the easier the typo is to spot; one-edit slips are the ones that sneak past readers.
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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Similar English words by spelling shape
Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "Milly", not the corpus desk frequency band.
Same letter count
Frequency-ranked English headwords with 5 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (6 here; floor ≥5).