juste milieu

/\ʒys.tə mi.ljø\/ noun

Letters

12 characters

Language

French

word origin

Misspellings

0

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juste milieu is aFrenchnoun. It means: Point d’équilibre, autant au sens figuré qu’au sens propre. Pronounced \ʒys.tə mi.ljø\.

Key facts for juste milieu
PropertyValue
Headwordjuste milieu
LanguageFrench
Part of speechNoun
IPA\ʒys.tə mi.ljø\
Letters12
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Frequency rank visualization

juste milieu is not present in the top-100,000 ranked French corpus, typical for technical, archaic, or low-frequency vocabulary.

Source: Wordfreq corpus

Spelling & Dictionary Insight

The French entry for juste milieu is 12 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \ʒys.tə mi.ljø\. It sits outside the most-frequent rank tiers, which is often why uncommon words generate more spelling variants per reader.Wiktionary records 2 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.

No frequent misspelling variants are recorded for juste milieu in our index, suggesting the orthography either follows predictable French patterns or the word is uncommon enough that typo corpora lack signal.It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.

No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. For readers arriving here from a spelling check, the authoritative guidance is: the correct French form is juste milieu, spelled J-U-S-T-E- -M-I-L-I-E-U, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.

Definition

  1. 1
    Point d’équilibre, autant au sens figuré qu’au sens propre.
  2. 2
    S’applique – souvent ironiquement – à la politique menée en France par le roi Louis-Philippe après 1830.

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Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "juste milieu"?
"juste milieu" is spelled J-U-S-T-E- -M-I-L-I-E-U. The IPA pronunciation is \ʒys.tə mi.ljø\.
What does "juste milieu" mean?
As a noun, "juste milieu" means: Point d’équilibre, autant au sens figuré qu’au sens propre.
How do you pronounce "juste milieu"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "juste milieu" is \ʒys.tə mi.ljø\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "juste milieu" come from?
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Data Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Frequency data from Wordfreq. Misspellings derived from Hunspell dictionaries.