miette
French, noun/mjɛt/
miette is spelled M-I-E-T-T-E (6 letters) and appears 1.0 times per million words in written French, the 30,948th most frequent French word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Miette is a French feminine noun meaning “crumb (of bread or cake)” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Une des petites parties qui tombent du pain quand on le coupe, ou qui restent quand on a mangé”.
What does miette mean in English?
noun
- 1
femininecrumb (of bread or cake)
Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How French dictionaries define it
noun: 1. Une des petites parties qui tombent du pain quand on le coupe, ou qui restent quand on a mangé. 2. Très petit morceau de quelque chose à manger. 3. Très petit morceau d’un objet quelconque.
The definition in the French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire), in French.
Source: French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire), dump of September 1, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org.
Forms of miette
- miettes plural
Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce miette?
- /mjɛt/
- \mjɛt\
- [mjɛt]
Sources: English Wiktionary, French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
English words that translate to miette
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is miette in French?
miette appears 1.0 times per million words in written French.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).