mica
\mi.ka\
The verdict
“mica” has 5 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #43,011. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #43,011
- frequency rank, French
- 5,038
- “M” headwords
- 5
- tracked misspellings
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Minéral du groupe des silicates, sous groupe des phyllosilicates, comprenant de nombreuses espèces.
Corpus desk
Index FR-mica · mica · French
mica · rank #43,011 · 5 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-MID #43,011
- LEN-MID 4 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-MID 5 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,038
- PHOTO-FINISH meur
Nearest frequency peer: meur (-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.
Pairs de rang près de l'aimant d'erreurs « mica »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- Maurin
Maurin
56,995 corpus weight
- Medvedev
Medvedev
56,992 corpus weight
- meur
meur
56,991 corpus weight
- mica
mica
56,990 corpus weight
- mimosa
mimosa
56,988 corpus weight
- mirages
mirages
56,987 corpus weight
What this shows « mica » siège parmi ces pairs FrequencyWords; la profondeur des fautes est suivie à part dans le graphique d'édition.
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 | mica |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \mi.ka\ |
| Letters | 4 |
| Frequency rank | #43,011 |
| Misspellings tracked | 5 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « mica »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 5 spelling variants around mica (IPA \mi.ka\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #43,011 among 5,038 “M” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Minéral du groupe des silicates, sous groupe des phyllosilicates, comprenant de nombreuses espèces.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 5 likely wrong-spelling variants for mica, with forms such as "imca", "mcia", and "miac". Every one of these variants traces to a single-character edit -- an added or dropped letter, a swapped consonant, or a vowel swap -- the kind of slip a spell-checker is built to catch. It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "mis", "min", "mit", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
No documented word history exists for this headword, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct French form is mica, spelled M-I-C-A.
Definition
- 1Minéral du groupe des silicates, sous groupe des phyllosilicates, comprenant de nombreuses espèces.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how mica appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
[…]; et entre ce dernier chemin et la source minérale, de la syénite, diorite et felsite gris-bleuâtre, contenant des grains de mica, sont recouvertes par du grès meulier et du calcaire carbonifère.
[…] ; l'abondance fréquente du mica donne à la roche une texture feuilletée et la rend plus délitable ; […].
Synonyms
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- imca
- mcia
- miac
- micca
- mmica
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of mica - counted as single-character edits (an insertion, a deletion, or a substituted letter). The larger the bar, the easier the typo is to spot; one-edit slips are the ones that sneak past readers.
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.
Frequently Asked Questions
How do you spell "mica"?
What does "mica" mean?
What words are commonly confused with "mica"?
How do you pronounce "mica"?
What language does "mica" come from?
Is PlainSpell free to use?
Similar French words by spelling shape
Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "mica", not the corpus desk frequency band.
Same letter count
Frequency-ranked French headwords with 4 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (5 here; floor ≥5).