Mlle
"mlle" is a 4-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“Mlle” is uncommon English (frequency #59,555 among 4,057 “M” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #59,555
- frequency rank, English
- 4,057
- “M” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Abbreviation of Mademoiselle.
Corpus desk
Index EN-mlle · Mlle · English
Mlle · rank #59,555 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #59,555
- LEN-MID 4 letters
- VOW-1 1 vowel
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 4,057
- PHOTO-FINISH missal
Nearest frequency peer: missal (-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 “Mlle”
Sparse band: bars invert rank so rarer forms read shorter
- minibar
minibar
40,452 corpus weight
- missal
missal
40,447 corpus weight
- Mlle
Mlle
40,446 corpus weight
- mna
mna
40,445 corpus weight
- mola
mola
40,444 corpus weight
- moralistic
moralistic
40,441 corpus weight
What this shows Long-tail view: where “Mlle” sits against similarly uncommon English ranks.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Mlle |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| Letters | 4 |
| Frequency rank | #59,555 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Long-tail rank of “Mlle” in English
Rare enough to double-check
Mlle is uncommon English at frequency #59,555 among 4,057 “M” headwords, classed as anoun. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Abbreviation of Mademoiselle.".
No generated misspelling entries exist for Mlle in our index, a straightforward case of a spelling with little room for common typos. Our confusable-pair dataset has no match for it, since no other headword is close enough in sound or shape to pair with it.
Etymologically, the entry records: From French Mlle. The correct English form is Mlle, spelled M-L-L-E.
Definition
- 1Abbreviation of Mademoiselle.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how Mlle appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
(Mlle Mary Paillon states in the Bulletin Mensuelle du C.A.F., 1901, p. 67, that the first women to traverse the Arêtes were Mlles Marie and Louise Lacharière in 1891, but I have found no confirmation of this)
Provenance: Mme Jean-Baptiste Lepère, née Elisabeth Fontaine, Paris, until 1844; her daughter Mme Jacques-Ignace Hittorff, née Elisabeth Lepère, Paris, until 1870; her son Charles-Joseph Hittorff, Versailles, until 1898; Dr. Pierre and Mlle Elisabeth Cartier, by inheritance; their gift to the Musée du Louvre, Paris, 1938
Etymology
From French Mlle.
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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