borne milliaire
\bɔʁn mi.ljɛʁ\
The verdict
“borne milliaire” is outside the top-ranked French vocabulary, used as a noun - the kind of word writers most often double-check.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency French
- 15
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - Borne qui servait à indiquer, sur les chemins romains, chaque distance de mille pas.
| 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) |
Where “borne milliaire” sits in French frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for borne milliaire is 15 letters long, classified as a noun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \bɔʁn mi.ljɛʁ\. It sits outside the most-frequent rank tiers, which is often why uncommon words generate more spelling variants per reader. The dominant gloss from Wiktionary reads: "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.
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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.
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The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct French spelling is B-O-R-N-E- -M-I-L-L-I-A-I-R-E - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
- Say it as \bɔʁn mi.ljɛʁ\ (IPA); tap the speaker on the pronunciation badge to hear it where audio exists.
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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.