milt

Name: milt, English Word Data
Creator: Wiktionary
License: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/

/mɪlt/

//mɪlt// noun

By PlainSpell · According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA) · analyzed September 3, 2026

The verdict

“milt” has 6 generated spelling variants in the English index at frequency #43,788. The variants make it a useful spelling check.

#43,788
frequency rank, English: 4,057
“M” headwords: 6
tracked misspellings: 20
confusable pairs

According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - The spleen, especially of an animal bred for food.

Corpus desk

Index EN-milt · milt · English

milt · rank #43,788 · 6 variants · 20 confusables

FREQ-MID #43,788
LEN-MID 4 letters
VOW-1 1 vowel
CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
VAR-MID 6 variants
BOOK-MID 4,057
PHOTO-FINISH Millicent

Nearest frequency peer: Millicent (-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.

Medway

56,218
Mensa

56,216
mignon

56,215
Millicent

56,214
milt

56,213
MLG

56,212

What this shows Bars show where “milt” sits against the nearest ranked English headwords in the FrequencyWords band, not a reprint of letter-browse containment.

Visual similarity to commonly confused words

How many letter changes separate each confused pair (Levenshtein distance, normalized).

milt vs MT

0% similar

milt vs ML

0% similar

milt vs mix

50% similar

Source: PlainSpell confusable corpus (Wiktionary, CC BY-SA).

Key facts for milt
Property	Value
Headword	milt
Language	English
Part of speech	Noun
IPA	/mɪlt/
Letters	4
Frequency rank	#43,788
Misspellings tracked	6
Confusable pairs	20
Source	Wiktionary (kaikki.org)

Where “milt” sits in English frequency

Word frequency stretches from the small set of words we reach for constantly (left) out to the long tail barely used once in a while (right).milt lands here:

#43,788

#1#100#1K#10K#100K

← used constantlyrarely used →

The axis is logarithmic, with each marked tick roughly ten times rarer than the last. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

A misspelling magnet

The generator records 6 spelling variants around milt (IPA /mɪlt/), anoun. Corpus frequency is #43,788 among 4,057 “M” headwords. Wiktionary lists 3 senses, so context still picks the gloss.

Our generated misspelling index lists 6 likely wrong-spelling variants for milt, with forms such as "imlt", "millt", and "miltt". 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, "MT", "ML", "mix", and more, since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.

Etymologically, the entry records: From Middle English milte, from Old English milte, milt (“milt, spleen”), from Proto-West Germanic *miltijā, *meltā, from Proto-Germanic *meltǭ (“spleen”), from Proto-Indo-European *(s)meld- (“to beat, grind, crush, weaken”). Cognate with German Milz, Dutch… The correct English form is milt, spelled M-I-L-T.

Definition

1
The spleen, especially of an animal bred for food.
2
The semen of a male fish.
3
The engorged testis containing a filled reservoir of mature spermatozoa in a male fish.

Recorded use

Wiktionary examples

These source excerpts show how milt appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.

we see that certaine apprehensions engender a blushing-red colour, others a palenesse; that some imagination doth only worke in the milt, another in the braine[…].
Cancer, or the Crab, commandeth the Stomach, Limbs, Arteries, Milt, Liver and Gall.

Etymology

From Middle English milte, from Old English milte, milt (“milt, spleen”), from Proto-West Germanic *miltijā, *meltā, from Proto-Germanic *meltǭ (“spleen”), from Proto-Indo-European *(s)meld- (“to beat, grind, crush, weaken”). Cognate with German Milz, Dutch milt, Danish milt, Norwegian milt, Swedish mjälte. Outside Germanic, with Albanian mëlçi (“liver”) and Italian milza (“spleen”), which is a borrowing from Lombardic.

Synonyms

spleen liensoft roewhite roe

This word in other languages

lecha(Español)laite(Français)Milch(Deutsch)

Common misspellings

Also misspelled as:

imlt
millt
miltt
mitl
mlit
mmilt

Misspelling Pattern Breakdown

How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of milt - expressed in single-character edits (insert, delete, or swap one letter). Bigger bars stand out at a glance; a one-edit slip is the hardest to catch.

Edit distance from "milt"

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.

PlainSpell is rendered directly from structured Wiktionary extracts and open word-frequency lists, no number is typed in by an editor. See our editorial standards & corrections policy, the methodology behind these numbers, or report a data error. Data current as of September 3, 2026. Primary sources: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org) and FrequencyWords.

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "milt"?

"milt" is spelled M-I-L-T. The IPA pronunciation is /mɪlt/.

What does "milt" mean?

As a noun, "milt" means: The spleen, especially of an animal bred for food.

What words are commonly confused with "milt"?

"milt" is commonly confused with "MT", "ML", "mix". These words look or sound similar but have different meanings. PlainSpell provides detailed comparisons for each pair.

How do you pronounce "milt"?

The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "milt" is /mɪlt/. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.

What is the origin of the word "milt"?

From Middle English milte, from Old English milte, milt (“milt, spleen”), from Proto-West Germanic *miltijā, *meltā, from Proto-Germanic *meltǭ (“spleen”), from Proto-Indo-European *(s)meld- (“to beat, grind, crush, weaken”). Cognate with German M... See the full etymology section above for more details.

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Similar English words by spelling shape

Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "milt", not the corpus desk frequency band.

Same letter count

Frequency-ranked English headwords with 4 letters (nearest by frequency rank).

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Similar misspelling depth

Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (6 here; floor ≥5).

Mensa6 variants otaku6 variants Recep6 variants hoppy6 variants

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"milt" maps to 20 confusable pairs in this vintage; the highest-scored is "MT". View pair
6 edit-distance misspelling variants are generated for spell-check research on this headword. See variants
Usage frequency rank #43,788 among English headwords in this corpus. Corpus statistics
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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.