mie

\mi\

/\mi\/ noun

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The verdict

“mie” sits in 20 confusable pairs (corpus #17,190) as a noun. The look-alike neighbours are the real trap.

#17,190
frequency rank, French
5,038
“M” headwords
20
confusable pairs

According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Miette, habituellement de pain.

Corpus desk

Index FR-mie · mie · French

mie · rank #17,190 · 0 variants · 20 confusables

  • FREQ-MID #17,190
  • LEN-MID 3 letters
  • VOW-2 2 vowels
  • CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
  • VAR-0 0 variants
  • BOOK-DENSE 5,038
  • PHOTO-FINISH miam

Nearest frequency peer: miam (-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.

Voisins de fréquence du confusable « mie »

Pairs de poids proche dans le corpus, séparés des confusables ci-dessous

corpus weight

What this shows Les barres placent « mie » face aux lemmes français les plus proches par rang, pas un reprint du bureau des confusables.

Source FrequencyWords open word-frequency list As of September 3, 2026

Visual similarity to commonly confused words

How many letter changes separate each confused pair (Levenshtein distance, normalized).

mie vs mm
33% similar
mie vs MR
0% similar
mie vs my
33% similar

Source: PlainSpell confusable corpus (Wiktionary, CC BY-SA).

Key facts for mie
PropertyValue
Headwordmie
LanguageFrench
Part of speechNoun
IPA\mi\
Letters3
Frequency rank#17,190
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs20
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Rang de corpus près des confusables de « mie »

Cette échelle va du noyau du français courant (gauche) jusqu'à la traîne des formes rares (droite).miese place ici:

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

Les tics avancent en logarithme; chacun est de l'ordre de dix fois plus rare. Dans la même bande de rareté figurent « miam » (#17,189), « millénaires » (#17,191), « meetings » (#17,188). Parmi 5,038 lemmes en « M », « mie » est au #17,190. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

Easy to mix with look-alikes

The spelling risk for mie is neighbouring look-alikes ("mm", "MR", …), not just typos; it is anoun pronounced \mi\. Frequency #17,190 among 5,038 “M” headwords. 2 recorded senses keep meaning in play.

No misspelling variants are generated for mie in our index, a straightforward case of a spelling with little room for common typos. It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "mm", "MR", "my", and more, a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.

No documented word history exists for this headword, so its spelling pattern is best understood through pronunciation rather than a traceable origin. The correct French form is mie, spelled M-I-E.

Definition

  1. 1
    Miette, habituellement de pain.
  2. 2
    Partie molle qui est à l’intérieur du pain.

Recorded use

Wiktionary examples

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

  1. Il ricana, occupé à modeler dans la mie de pain un petit caniche.
  2. Mais, je n’y ai pas trouvé, comme aux jours où tu partageais mon repas, la trace courbe de tes dents, qui rendait à ma bouche la mie aussi douce qu’un baiser, et c’est le cœur serré que je reprends les sentiers parsemés de pierres violettes.

This word in other languages

crumbs(English)miga(Español)Krume(Deutsch)migalha(Português)

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 "mie"?
"mie" is spelled M-I-E. The IPA pronunciation is \mi\.
What does "mie" mean?
As a noun, "mie" means: Miette, habituellement de pain.
What words are commonly confused with "mie"?
"mie" is commonly confused with "mm", "MR", "my". These words look or sound similar but have different meanings. PlainSpell provides detailed comparisons for each pair.
How do you pronounce "mie"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "mie" is \mi\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "mie" come from?
"mie" is a French word. PlainSpell covers definitions, pronunciations, and spelling data across English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, and German.
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Similar French words by spelling shape

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

Same letter count

Frequency-ranked French headwords with 3 letters (nearest by frequency rank).

ham#17,150gus#17,148ges#17,144fed#17,134

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

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list