miche
\miʃ\
The verdict
“miche” is uncommon French (frequency #54,105 among 5,038 “M” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #54,105
- frequency rank, French
- 5,038
- “M” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Pain d’une grosseur moyenne, pesant une livre ou plus.
Corpus desk
Index FR-miche · miche · French
miche · rank #54,105 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #54,105
- LEN-MID 5 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,038
- PHOTO-FINISH meursault
Nearest frequency peer: meursault (-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 « miche »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- mettions
mettions
45,898 corpus weight
- meursault
meursault
45,897 corpus weight
- miche
miche
45,896 corpus weight
- millionième
millionième
45,895 corpus weight
- Minerva
Minerva
45,894 corpus weight
- missing
missing
45,893 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « miche » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | miche |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \miʃ\ |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #54,105 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « miche » en français
Rare enough to double-check
miche is uncommon French at frequency #54,105 among 5,038 “M” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \miʃ\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 3 senses are on record.
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for miche, typically a sign the spelling maps closely to how the word sounds. We don't track a confusable pairing for this entry, a sign it's visually distinctive enough not to be mixed up with another word.
No documented word history exists for this headword, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct French form is miche, spelled M-I-C-H-E.
Definition
- 1Pain d’une grosseur moyenne, pesant une livre ou plus.
- 2Fesse.
- 3Seins, poitrine.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how miche appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Nous avons encore pas mal de pain de seigle à manger, et la miche quotidienne est dure à pétrir.
Pendant qu’elle disposait les bols et qu’elle tirait de la huche la bonne miche de pain bis, mon compagnon lui demanda : […].
This word in other languages
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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