milan

Name: milan, French Word Data
Creator: Wiktionary
License: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/

\mi.lɑ̃\

/\mi.lɑ̃\/ noun

By PlainSpell · According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA) · analyzed September 3, 2026

The verdict

“milan” has 7 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #3,941. The variants make it a useful spelling check.

#3,941
frequency rank, French: 5,038
“M” headwords: 7
tracked misspellings: 20
confusable pairs

According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Oiseau de proie rapace diurne à queue fourchue.

Corpus desk

Index FR-milan · milan · French

milan · rank #3,941 · 7 variants · 20 confusables

FREQ-COMMON #3,941
LEN-MID 5 letters
VOW-2 2 vowels
CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
VAR-MID 7 variants
BOOK-DENSE 5,038
PHOTO-FINISH mentionné

Nearest frequency peer: mentionné (-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.

marié

96,064
masque

96,063
massif

96,062
mentionné

96,061
milan

96,060
moteurs

96,058

What this shows « milan » 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).

milan vs min

60% similar

milan vs mile

60% similar

milan vs mill

60% similar

Source: PlainSpell confusable corpus (Wiktionary, CC BY-SA).

Key facts for milan
Property	Value
Headword	milan
Language	French
Part of speech	Noun
IPA	\mi.lɑ̃\
Letters	5
Frequency rank	#3,941
Misspellings tracked	7
Confusable pairs	20
Source	Wiktionary (kaikki.org)

Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « milan »

De gauche à droite: le peu qui porte la parole quotidienne, puis la longue queue quasi invisible.milanse place ici:

#3,941

#1#100#1K#10K#100K

← used constantlyrarely used →

L'axe est logarithmique: chaque tic marque environ dix fois moins de fréquence. Dans la même bande de rareté figurent « mentionné » (#3,940), « massif » (#3,939), « moteurs » (#3,943). Parmi 5,038 lemmes en « M », « milan » est au #3,941. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

A misspelling magnet

The generator records 7 spelling variants around milan (IPA \mi.lɑ̃\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #3,941 among 5,038 “M” headwords. Wiktionary lists 2 senses, so context still picks the gloss.

Our generated misspelling index lists 7 likely wrong-spelling variants for milan, with forms such as "imlan", "mialn", and "milann". Each of these forms differs from the correct spelling by one small edit: a doubled letter, a dropped silent letter, or a substituted vowel. It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "min", "mile", "mill", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.

This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct French form is milan, spelled M-I-L-A-N.

Definition

1
Oiseau de proie rapace diurne à queue fourchue.
2
Poisson de la famille des trigles.

Recorded use

Wiktionary examples

These source excerpts show how milan appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.

C’était quelque chose de l’immobilité d’un milan qui vient de découvrir un nid de moineaux et qui le regarde.
Dans cette pensée, conçue au feu d’un désir frénétique, il tomba sur la comtesse de Vandenesse comme un milan sur sa proie.

Synonyms

choche-poulemilan de mer

This word in other languages

kite(English)milano(Español)Milan(Deutsch)

Common misspellings

Also misspelled as:

imlan
mialn
milann
millan
milna
mlian
mmilan

Misspelling Pattern Breakdown

How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of milan - expressed in single-character edits (insert, delete, or swap one letter). Bigger bars stand out at a glance; a one-edit slip is the hardest to catch.

Edit distance from "milan"

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.

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "milan"?

"milan" is spelled M-I-L-A-N. The IPA pronunciation is \mi.lɑ̃\.

What does "milan" mean?

As a noun, "milan" means: Oiseau de proie rapace diurne à queue fourchue.

What words are commonly confused with "milan"?

"milan" is commonly confused with "min", "mile", "mill". These words look or sound similar but have different meanings. PlainSpell provides detailed comparisons for each pair.

How do you pronounce "milan"?

The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "milan" is \mi.lɑ̃\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.

What language does "milan" come from?

"milan" is a French word. You can look up definitions, pronunciations, and spelling data for this and other words across English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, and German on PlainSpell.

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Similar French words by spelling shape

Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "milan", not the corpus desk frequency band.

Same letter count

Frequency-ranked French headwords with 5 letters (nearest by frequency rank).

marié#3,937 marin#3,936 jette#3,931 issus#3,930

Similar misspelling depth

Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (7 here; floor ≥5).

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