miche

\miʃ\

/\miʃ\/ noun

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

corpus weight

What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « miche » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.

Source FrequencyWords open word-frequency list As of September 3, 2026
Key facts for miche
PropertyValue
Headwordmiche
LanguageFrench
Part of speechNoun
IPA\miʃ\
Letters5
Frequency rank#54,105
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Longue queue: rang de « miche » en français

De gauche à droite: le peu qui porte la parole quotidienne, puis la longue queue quasi invisible.michetombe dans cette queue de rareté:

#1#100#1K#10K#100K
← used constantlyrarely used →

L'axe est logarithmique: chaque tic marque environ dix fois moins de fréquence. Voisins rares de la même bande: « meursault » (#54,104), « millionième » (#54,106), « mettions » (#54,103). Parmi 5,038 lemmes en « M », « miche » est au #54,105. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

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

  1. 1
    Pain d’une grosseur moyenne, pesant une livre ou plus.
  2. 2
    Fesse.
  3. 3
    Seins, poitrine.

Recorded use

Wiktionary examples

These source excerpts show how miche appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.

  1. Nous avons encore pas mal de pain de seigle à manger, et la miche quotidienne est dure à pétrir.
  2. 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.

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "miche"?
"miche" is spelled M-I-C-H-E. The IPA pronunciation is \miʃ\.
What does "miche" mean?
As a noun, "miche" means: Pain d’une grosseur moyenne, pesant une livre ou plus.
How do you pronounce "miche"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "miche" is \miʃ\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "miche" come from?
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Similar French words by spelling shape

Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "miche", not the corpus desk frequency band.

Same letter count

Frequency-ranked French headwords with 5 letters (nearest by frequency rank).

Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org) Structured Wiktionary extract

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list