mildiou
\mil.dju\
The verdict
“mildiou” is uncommon French (frequency #56,109 among 5,038 “M” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #56,109
- frequency rank, French
- 5,038
- “M” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Maladie cryptogamique de nombreuses cultures (vigne, pomme de terre, tabac, …), causée par un champignon microscopique de l’ordre des Péronosporales, et qui vit dans le tissu des feuilles ; c’est u...
Corpus desk
Index FR-mildiou · mildiou · French
mildiou · rank #56,109 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #56,109
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,038
- PHOTO-FINISH militariste
Nearest frequency peer: militariste (+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 « mildiou »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- MCO
MCO
43,895 corpus weight
- meal
meal
43,894 corpus weight
- mildiou
mildiou
43,892 corpus weight
- militariste
militariste
43,891 corpus weight
- Misha
Misha
43,890 corpus weight
- Mississauga
Mississauga
43,889 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « mildiou » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | mildiou |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \mil.dju\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #56,109 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « mildiou » en français
Rare enough to double-check
mildiou is uncommon French at frequency #56,109 among 5,038 “M” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \mil.dju\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
mildiou has no tracked misspelling variants, since its letter pattern doesn't lend itself to common typo substitutions. No confusable counterpart is on file for this word, since no other headword is close enough in sound or shape to pair with it.
No documented word history exists for this headword, so its spelling is easiest explained by how it's pronounced rather than where it came from. The correct French form is mildiou, spelled M-I-L-D-I-O-U.
Definition
- 1Maladie cryptogamique de nombreuses cultures (vigne, pomme de terre, tabac, …), causée par un champignon microscopique de l’ordre des Péronosporales, et qui vit dans le tissu des feuilles ; c’est un ravageur majeur.
- 2Ce champignon lui-même, dont l’espèce varie selon la plante hôte.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how mildiou appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
La même protection fongicide employée dans la lutte contre le mildiou est en général efficace contre l’alternariose. À l’heure actuelle, on emploie surtout des dithiocarbamates, du zinèbe, du manèbe, du captafol, du chlorothalonil et du triphenyl-tin-hydroxyde.
Deux mildious sont susceptibles de produire des lésions brunes sur les fruits de tomate. Tout d'abord, le mildiou classique de cette solanacée, dû à P. infestans et qualifié aussi de « mildiou aérien » car il s’attaque à toutes les parties aériennes de cette plante […] Le mildiou terrestre, provoqué par P. nicotinae, se manifeste essentiellement sur le sy…
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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