miettes
French, noun\mjɛt\
miettes is spelled M-I-E-T-T-E-S (7 letters) and appears 3.4 times per million words in written French, the 14,626th most frequent French word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Miettes is a French feminine noun meaning “plural of miette” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Peu de chose, en particulier quand avant il y avait beaucoup”.
What does miettes mean in English?
noun
- 1
feminineplural of miette
Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How French dictionaries define it
noun: 1. Peu de chose, en particulier quand avant il y avait beaucoup. 2. des centimes. 3. Se qui reste comme argent après avoir payé les taxes, les impôts, les primes d’assurance, l’éléctricité, etc., en particulier quand il ne reste plus beaucoup d’argent.
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.
How do you pronounce miettes?
- \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 miettes
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is miettes in French?
miettes appears 3.4 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).