mil
\mil\
The verdict
“mil” sits in 20 confusable pairs (corpus #17,999) as an adjective. The look-alike neighbours are the real trap.
- #17,999
- frequency rank, French
- 5,038
- “M” headwords
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Variante orthographique de mille.
Corpus desk
Index FR-mil · mil · French
mil · rank #17,999 · 0 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-MID #17,999
- LEN-MID 3 letters
- VOW-1 1 vowel
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,038
- PHOTO-FINISH mettront
Nearest frequency peer: mettront (-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.
Voisins de fréquence du confusable « mil »
Pairs de poids proche dans le corpus, séparés des confusables ci-dessous
- masturbation
masturbation
82,005 corpus weight
- mettront
mettront
82,003 corpus weight
- mil
mil
82,002 corpus weight
- milliardair…
milliardaires
82,001 corpus weight
- montrera
montrera
82,000 corpus weight
- Mord
Mord
81,999 corpus weight
What this shows Les barres placent « mil » face aux lemmes français les plus proches par rang, pas un reprint du bureau des confusables.
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 | mil |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | \mil\ |
| Letters | 3 |
| Frequency rank | #17,999 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Rang de corpus près des confusables de « mil »
Easy to mix with look-alikes
The spelling risk for mil is neighbouring look-alikes ("mm", "MR", …), not just typos; it is anadjective pronounced \mil\. Frequency #17,999 among 5,038 “M” headwords. Gloss: "Variante orthographique de mille.".
mil doesn't appear in our generated misspelling index, suggesting the orthography follows predictable French patterns. It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "mm", "MR", "my", 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 mil, spelled M-I-L.
Definition
- 1Variante orthographique de mille.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how mil appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
L’an mil neuf cent quatre-vingt-dix-neuf.
Je reviendrai le premier mars mil huit cent quarante-cinq, répondit Geneviève, légère et souriante.
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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Frequency-ranked French headwords with 3 letters (nearest by frequency rank).