milady
\mi.le.di\
The verdict
“milady” has 9 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #42,463. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #42,463
- frequency rank, French
- 5,038
- “M” headwords
- 9
- tracked misspellings
- 6
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Titre que l’on donne en Angleterre à la femme d’un lord ou d’un baronnet.
Corpus desk
Index FR-milady · milady · French
milady · rank #42,463 · 9 variants · 6 confusables
- FREQ-MID #42,463
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 6 pairs
- VAR-MID 9 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,038
- PHOTO-FINISH Michaux
Nearest frequency peer: Michaux (-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 « milady »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- mesdemoisel…
mesdemoiselles
57,541 corpus weight
- meublée
meublée
57,540 corpus weight
- Michaux
Michaux
57,539 corpus weight
- milady
milady
57,538 corpus weight
- militari
militari
57,537 corpus weight
- mimosas
mimosas
57,536 corpus weight
What this shows « milady » 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 | milady |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \mi.le.di\ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #42,463 |
| Misspellings tracked | 9 |
| Confusable pairs | 6 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « milady »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 9 spelling variants around milady (IPA \mi.le.di\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #42,463 among 5,038 “M” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Titre que l’on donne en Angleterre à la femme d’un lord ou d’un baronnet.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 9 likely wrong-spelling variants for milady, with forms such as "imlady", "mialdy", and "miladdy". Every one of these variants traces to a single-character edit -- an added or dropped letter, a swapped consonant, or a vowel swap -- the kind of slip a spell-checker is built to catch. It also participates in 6 confusable-pair relationships, "milan", "Miley", "milano", and more, since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so any spelling logic here comes from how the word's sounds map to letters, not a documented origin story. The correct French form is milady, spelled M-I-L-A-D-Y.
Definition
- 1Titre que l’on donne en Angleterre à la femme d’un lord ou d’un baronnet.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how milady appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Trois mousquetaires et une milady au milieu, lâcha l’adjudant en captant aussitôt les regards sidérés des époux.
Synonyms
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- imlady
- mialdy
- miladdy
- miladyy
- milayd
- milday
- millady
- mliady
- mmilady
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of milady - 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
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Same letter count
Frequency-ranked French headwords with 6 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (9 here; floor ≥5).