micheton
\miʃ.tɔ̃\
The verdict
“micheton” is uncommon French (outside the top frequency list), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency French
- 8
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - ou Homme facile à duper, en particulier client d’une prostituée.
Corpus desk
Index FR-micheton · micheton · French
micheton · unranked · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-UNRANKED Unranked
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-THIN "M" thin
- PHOTO-UNK Peer pending
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.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | micheton |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \miʃ.tɔ̃\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
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Rare enough to double-check
micheton is uncommon French outside the top frequency list, classed as anoun, transcribed \miʃ.tɔ̃\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "ou Homme facile à duper, en particulier client d’une prostituée.".
No generated misspelling entries exist for micheton in our index, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. Our confusable-pair dataset has no match for it, which typically means the spelling is too distinctive to be mistaken for another word.
Our source data has no etymology on file for this entry, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. The correct French form is micheton, spelled M-I-C-H-E-T-O-N.
Definition
- 1ou Homme facile à duper, en particulier client d’une prostituée.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how micheton appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Il était tout ce qu'il y a de beau môme, le Komako, mais pas regardant quant au sexe. Il a été entretenu, Panhard-Levassor, hôtel particulier, bijoux, du kif comme une pétasse de luxe. — Et ça ne lui a pas porté bonheur? — Non ! Son micheton lui faisait prendre de la drogue. C'était vicieux et compagnie. Bref, il est crevé bêtement, question de dose.
[…]pour moi Monsieur Éric avec ses costards tissés en Écosse à Roubaix, ses boutons de manchettes en simili et ses pompes à l’italienne fabriquées à Grenoble, et ben c’est rien qu’un demi-sel. […] Parce que j’en ai connu moi, mon cher maître, des rois, et puis pas des petits. Les Hanovre, les Hohenzollern. Rien que du micheton garanti croisade.
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