mille
/ˈmiːl.le/
The verdict
“mille” is uncommon Spanish (frequency #53,058 among 3,868 “M” headwords), classed as an adjective. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #53,058
- frequency rank, Spanish
- 3,868
- “M” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Mil (1000).
Corpus desk
Index ES-mille · mille · Spanish
mille · rank #53,058 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #53,058
- LEN-MID 5 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,868
- PHOTO-FINISH military
Nearest frequency peer: military (-1 rank slots)
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.
Rangos de cola larga cerca de “mille”
Banda escasa: las barras invierten el rango para que lo raro se lea más corto
- Mesilla
Mesilla
46,947 corpus weight
- Metepec
Metepec
46,946 corpus weight
- military
military
46,944 corpus weight
- mille
mille
46,943 corpus weight
- mises
mises
46,941 corpus weight
- mitológicos
mitológicos
46,940 corpus weight
What this shows Vista de cola larga: dónde “mille” se sitúa frente a rangos españoles igualmente raros.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | mille |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | /ˈmiːl.le/ |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #53,058 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Cola larga: rango de “mille” en español
Rare enough to double-check
mille is uncommon Spanish at frequency #53,058 among 3,868 “M” headwords, classed as anadjective, transcribed /ˈmiːl.le/. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
The misspelling generator found no plausible variants for mille, a sign its spelling follows regular Spanish conventions. We don't track a confusable pairing for this entry, since no other headword is close enough in sound or shape to pair with it.
No borrowing history is documented for this entry, so any spelling logic here comes from how the word's sounds map to letters, not a documented origin story. The correct Spanish form is mille, spelled M-I-L-L-E.
Definition
- 1Mil (1000).
- 2Mil (1000).
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 Spanish corpus, MIT). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.
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