Mds
\mi.ljaʁ\
The verdict
“Mds” sits in 20 confusable pairs (corpus #22,000) as a noun. The look-alike neighbours are the real trap.
- #22,000
- frequency rank, French
- 5,038
- “M” headwords
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Abréviation de milliards.
Corpus desk
Index FR-mds · Mds · French
Mds · rank #22,000 · 0 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-MID #22,000
- LEN-MID 3 letters
- VOW-0 0 vowels
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,038
- PHOTO-FINISH Miley
Nearest frequency peer: Miley (+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.
Voisins de fréquence du confusable « Mds »
Pairs de poids proche dans le corpus, séparés des confusables ci-dessous
- magnum
magnum
78,004 corpus weight
- malice
malice
78,003 corpus weight
- Mds
Mds
78,001 corpus weight
- Miley
Miley
78,000 corpus weight
- militantes
militantes
77,999 corpus weight
- modulation
modulation
77,998 corpus weight
What this shows Les barres placent « Mds » face aux lemmes français les plus proches par rang, pas un reprint du bureau des confusables.
Visual similarity to commonly confused words
How many letter changes separate each confused pair (Levenshtein distance, normalized).
Source: PlainSpell confusable corpus (Wiktionary, CC BY-SA).
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Mds |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \mi.ljaʁ\ |
| Letters | 3 |
| Frequency rank | #22,000 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Rang de corpus près des confusables de « Mds »
Easy to mix with look-alikes
The spelling risk for Mds is neighbouring look-alikes ("me", "mm", …), not just typos; it is anoun pronounced \mi.ljaʁ\. Frequency #22,000 among 5,038 “M” headwords. Gloss: "Abréviation de milliards.".
The misspelling generator found no plausible variants for Mds, since its letter pattern doesn't lend itself to common typo substitutions. It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "me", "mm", "mi", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
This entry carries no recorded etymology, so its spelling is best explained by sound-to-letter mapping rather than etymology. The correct French form is Mds, spelled M-D-S.
Definition
- 1Abréviation de milliards.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how Mds appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Pour la partie des dettes publiques détenues par les non-résidents (soit, graphique 7 et tableau 2), 320 Mds d’euros en Grèce, 170 Mds d’euros au Portugal), 440 Mds d’euros en Espagne, 1 000 Mds d’euros en Italie), le plus probable est qu’elle soit convertie de l’euro dans les nouvelles monnaies des pays.
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 French corpus, MIT). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.
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