borne milliaire
\bɔʁn mi.ljɛʁ\
The verdict
“borne milliaire” is uncommon French (outside the top frequency list), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency French
- 15
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Borne qui servait à indiquer, sur les chemins romains, chaque distance de mille pas.
Corpus desk
Index FR-borne-milliaire · borne milliaire · French
borne milliaire · unranked · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-UNRANKED Unranked
- LEN-MEGA 15 letters
- VOW-7 7 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-THIN "B" thin
- PHOTO-UNK Peer pending
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.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | borne milliaire |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \bɔʁn mi.ljɛʁ\ |
| Letters | 15 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
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Rare enough to double-check
borne milliaire is uncommon French outside the top frequency list, classed as anoun, transcribed \bɔʁn mi.ljɛʁ\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Borne qui servait à indiquer, sur les chemins romains, chaque distance de mille pas.".
The misspelling generator found no plausible variants for borne milliaire, since its letter sequence doesn't invite the usual edit-distance slips. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, which usually means its spelling is distinct enough that readers don't reach for a similar-looking word instead.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, so its spelling is best explained by sound-to-letter mapping rather than etymology. The correct French form is borne milliaire, spelled B-O-R-N-E- -M-I-L-L-I-A-I-R-E.
Definition
- 1Borne qui servait à indiquer, sur les chemins romains, chaque distance de mille pas.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how borne milliaire appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Il est dérouté dans ce milieu de blousiers et de réfractaires. Sa République, à lui, avait ses routes toutes tracées, ses bornes milliaires et ses poteaux, sa cadence de combat, ses haltes réglées de martyre. On a changé tout cela.
Faites comme moi, chères lectrices, allez contempler la dernière borne milliaire de Paris au nᵒ 85 de la rue de Vaugirard, et vous verrez qu’elle est vraiment évocatrice et vénérable comme une borne ancêtre qui en sait long, mais qui est muette, hélas ! car elle est en pierre !
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Definitions, pronunciation, and etymology for this entry are drawn from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org structured extract (CC BY-SA). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.