miellat
\mjɛ.la\
The verdict
“miellat” is uncommon French (outside the top frequency list), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency French
- 7
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Excrétion liquide, produite par des insectes suceurs comme le puceron à partir de la sève des plantes.
Corpus desk
Index FR-miellat · miellat · French
miellat · unranked · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-UNRANKED Unranked
- LEN-LONG 7 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 | miellat |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \mjɛ.la\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
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Rare enough to double-check
miellat is uncommon French outside the top frequency list, classed as anoun, transcribed \mjɛ.la\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
The misspelling generator found no plausible variants for miellat, since its letter pattern doesn't lend itself to common typo substitutions. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, since no other headword is close enough in sound or shape to pair with it.
This entry's etymology isn't recorded, 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 miellat, spelled M-I-E-L-L-A-T.
Definition
- 1Excrétion liquide, produite par des insectes suceurs comme le puceron à partir de la sève des plantes.
- 2Maladie des graminées caractérisée par un exsudat sucré de la plante dû au parasitisme d’un champignon.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how miellat appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
L’image est pertinente même si, en fait de lait, c’est du miellat que produit le cheptel des fourmis.
On sait que les pucerons tirent leur alimentation du phloème ; ils rejettent la sève en excès, sous forme de gouttelettes de miellat.
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). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.