mièvre
\mjɛvʁ\
The verdict
“mièvre” is uncommon French (frequency #66,118 among 5,038 “M” headwords), classed as an adjective. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #66,118
- frequency rank, French
- 5,038
- “M” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Vif, éveillé, espiègle.
Corpus desk
Index FR-mievre · mièvre · French
mièvre · rank #66,118 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #66,118
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,038
- PHOTO-FINISH Miura
Nearest frequency peer: Miura (-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 « mièvre »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- mioches
mioches
33,886 corpus weight
- misery
misery
33,885 corpus weight
- Miura
Miura
33,884 corpus weight
- mièvre
mièvre
33,883 corpus weight
- Moana
Moana
33,881 corpus weight
- modélisé
modélisé
33,880 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « mièvre » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | mièvre |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | \mjɛvʁ\ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #66,118 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « mièvre » en français
Rare enough to double-check
mièvre is uncommon French at frequency #66,118 among 5,038 “M” headwords, classed as anadjective, transcribed \mjɛvʁ\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for mièvre, a straightforward case of a spelling with little room for common typos. This entry stands alone in our confusable dataset, which typically means the spelling is too distinctive to be mistaken for another word.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so its spelling pattern is best understood through pronunciation rather than a traceable origin. The correct French form is mièvre, spelled M-I-È-V-R-E.
Definition
- 1Vif, éveillé, espiègle.
- 2De style exagéré et sans caractère, au point d’en paraître puéril.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how mièvre appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
La jeune duchesse avait bientôt quatorze ans, elle était jolie comme un ange et mièvre comme un lutin.
Lorsqu’il était petit, il n’a jamais été ce qu’on appelle mièvre et éveillé.
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); 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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