mies
\mi\
The verdict
“mies” is uncommon French (frequency #66,905 among 5,038 “M” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #66,905
- frequency rank, French
- 5,038
- “M” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Pluriel de mie.
Corpus desk
Index FR-mies · mies · French
mies · rank #66,905 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #66,905
- LEN-MID 4 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,038
- PHOTO-FINISH merengue
Nearest frequency peer: merengue (-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 « mies »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- Mecklembourg
Mecklembourg
33,100 corpus weight
- menteuses
menteuses
33,099 corpus weight
- menues
menues
33,098 corpus weight
- merengue
merengue
33,097 corpus weight
- mies
mies
33,096 corpus weight
- migrateur
migrateur
33,095 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « mies » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | mies |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \mi\ |
| Letters | 4 |
| Frequency rank | #66,905 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « mies » en français
Rare enough to double-check
mies is uncommon French at frequency #66,905 among 5,038 “M” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \mi\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Pluriel de mie.".
Zero misspellings are on record for mies in our index, which points to an orthography that plays by predictable French rules. Our dataset records no confusable match here, 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 mies, spelled M-I-E-S.
Definition
- 1Pluriel de mie.
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.
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