miel
Letters
4 characters
Frequency Rank
#5,153
in French word usage
Misspellings
4
tracked variants
Confusables
20
similar word pairs
miel is aFrenchnoun. It means: Mélange liquide, visqueux et sucré que les abeilles composent avec le suc qu’elles recueillent en butinant les fleurs et les feuilles des plantes. Pronounced \mjɛl\. It ranks #5,153 in French word frequency. Often confused with ML and mis.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | miel |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \mjɛl\ |
| Letters | 4 |
| Frequency rank | #5,153 |
| Misspellings tracked | 4 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for miel is 4 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \mjɛl\. Corpus data places it at rank #5,153 in overall French word frequency, indicating it appears regularly in written and spoken text.Wiktionary records 5 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 4 documented wrong-spelling variants for miel, with forms such as "imel", "meil", and "miell". Each variant represents a distinct typo pattern that appears often enough in corpora to be worth flagging, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution.It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "ML", "mis", "Mme", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. For readers arriving here from a spelling check, the authoritative guidance is: the correct French form is miel, spelled M-I-E-L, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Mélange liquide, visqueux et sucré que les abeilles composent avec le suc qu’elles recueillent en butinant les fleurs et les feuilles des plantes.
- 2Ce qu’il y a de bien, de bon, d’agréable, de facile dans une chose.
- 3Rosée qui, se formant sur certaines feuilles, prend une consistance visqueuse semblable au miel.
- 4Commencement d’une association, d’une entreprise, d’une fonction, de toute affaire dont on ne connaît encore que les avantages et non les difficultés.
- 5Terme d’affection adressé à quelqu’un.
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Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: imel,meil,miell,mmiel
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
Relative frequency of common misspelling types for miel
Misspelling Variants of "miel"
Frequency rank: #5,153 in French
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Nearby French words
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