miettes
\mjɛt\
The verdict
“miettes” has 8 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #14,737. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #14,737
- frequency rank, French
- 5,038
- “M” headwords
- 8
- tracked misspellings
- 14
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Peu de chose, en particulier quand avant il y avait beaucoup.
Corpus desk
Index FR-miettes · miettes · French
miettes · rank #14,737 · 8 variants · 14 confusables
- FREQ-MID #14,737
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 14 pairs
- VAR-MID 8 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,038
- PHOTO-FINISH meurtrière
Nearest frequency peer: meurtrière (-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.
Pairs de rang près de l'aimant d'erreurs « miettes »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- mentent
mentent
85,267 corpus weight
- mercenaires
mercenaires
85,266 corpus weight
- meurtrière
meurtrière
85,265 corpus weight
- miettes
miettes
85,264 corpus weight
- millimètres
millimètres
85,263 corpus weight
- mixité
mixité
85,262 corpus weight
What this shows « miettes » siège parmi ces pairs FrequencyWords; la profondeur des fautes est suivie à part dans le graphique d'édition.
Visual similarity to commonly confused words
How many letter changes separate each confused pair (Levenshtein distance, normalized).
Source: PlainSpell confusable corpus (Wiktionary, CC BY-SA).
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | miettes |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \mjɛt\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #14,737 |
| Misspellings tracked | 8 |
| Confusable pairs | 14 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « miettes »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 8 spelling variants around miettes (IPA \mjɛt\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #14,737 among 5,038 “M” headwords. Wiktionary lists 3 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 8 likely wrong-spelling variants for miettes, with forms such as "imettes", "meittes", and "mietes". Each variant is a distinct typo pattern an edit-distance generator flags, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution. It also participates in 14 confusable-pair relationships, "mixtes", "muette", "mottes", and more, a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.
No borrowing history is documented for this entry, so its spelling pattern is best understood through pronunciation rather than a traceable origin. The correct French form is miettes, spelled M-I-E-T-T-E-S.
Definition
- 1Peu de chose, en particulier quand avant il y avait beaucoup.
- 2des centimes.
- 3Se 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.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how miettes appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Ça coûtait 10 euro et des miettes.
Au quotidien on se débrouille avec les miettes.
Synonyms
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- imettes
- meittes
- mietes
- mietets
- miettess
- miettse
- mitetes
- mmiettes
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of miettes - measured in single-character edits (insert, delete, or substitute a letter). Larger bars are easier to catch; one-edit slips are the sneakiest.
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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Similar French words by spelling shape
Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "miettes", not the corpus desk frequency band.
Same letter count
Frequency-ranked French headwords with 7 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (8 here; floor ≥5).