Michaelis
\mi.ka.ɛ.lis\
The verdict
“Michaelis” is uncommon French (frequency #81,340 among 5,038 “M” headwords), classed as a proper noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #81,340
- frequency rank, French
- 5,038
- “M” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Prénom masculin.
Corpus desk
Index FR-michaelis · Michaelis · French
Michaelis · rank #81,340 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #81,340
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,038
- PHOTO-FINISH Mersey
Nearest frequency peer: Mersey (-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 « Michaelis »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- Mediaset
Mediaset
18,664 corpus weight
- mensualisat…
mensualisation
18,663 corpus weight
- Mersey
Mersey
18,662 corpus weight
- Michaelis
Michaelis
18,661 corpus weight
- Michoacán
Michoacán
18,659 corpus weight
- mitan
mitan
18,658 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « Michaelis » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Michaelis |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| IPA | \mi.ka.ɛ.lis\ |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #81,340 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « Michaelis » en français
Rare enough to double-check
Michaelis is uncommon French at frequency #81,340 among 5,038 “M” headwords, classed as aproper noun, transcribed \mi.ka.ɛ.lis\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Prénom masculin.".
No misspelling variants are generated for Michaelis in our index, a sign its spelling follows regular French conventions. Our confusable-pair dataset has no match for it, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, so its spelling is best read as a straightforward mapping from sound to letter. The correct French form is Michaelis, spelled M-I-C-H-A-E-L-I-S.
Definition
- 1Prénom masculin.
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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