miao
\mja.o\
The verdict
“miao” is uncommon French (frequency #73,355 among 5,038 “M” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #73,355
- frequency rank, French
- 5,038
- “M” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Temple.
Corpus desk
Index FR-miao · miao · French
miao · rank #73,355 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #73,355
- LEN-MID 4 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,038
- PHOTO-FINISH Micronésie
Nearest frequency peer: Micronésie (+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.
Rangs de longue queue près de « miao »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- menotter
menotter
26,650 corpus weight
- Mesmer
Mesmer
26,648 corpus weight
- miao
miao
26,646 corpus weight
- Micronésie
Micronésie
26,645 corpus weight
- miele
miele
26,644 corpus weight
- migros
migros
26,643 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « miao » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | miao |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \mja.o\ |
| Letters | 4 |
| Frequency rank | #73,355 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « miao » en français
Rare enough to double-check
miao is uncommon French at frequency #73,355 among 5,038 “M” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \mja.o\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Temple.".
No generated misspelling entries exist for miao in our index, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. No confusable counterpart is on file for this word, a sign it's visually distinctive enough not to be mixed up with another word.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so its spelling is best read as a straightforward mapping from sound to letter. The correct French form is miao, spelled M-I-A-O.
Definition
- 1Temple.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how miao appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Les clochers qui forment les angles les plus aigus de sa silhouette ne sont ni byzantins, ni gothiques, ni renaissance ; ils sont chinois, ou plutôt japonais ; vous les prendriez pour les tourelles de quelque miao dédié à Kong-fu-Tzée, Bouddha ou Fo, car ils sont revêtus entièrement de carreaux de porcelaine ou de faïence coloriés des teintes les plus viv…
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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