mile
\majl\
The verdict
“mile” sits in 20 confusable pairs (corpus #15,682) as a noun. The look-alike neighbours are the real trap.
- #15,682
- frequency rank, French
- 5,038
- “M” headwords
- 3
- tracked misspellings
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Unité de mesure de longueur anglo-saxonne, valant 1,760 yards (verges), soit 5,280 pieds, ou encore exactement 1 609,344 mètres. Son symbole est mi.
Corpus desk
Index FR-mile · mile · French
mile · rank #15,682 · 3 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-MID #15,682
- LEN-MID 4 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-LOW 3 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,038
- PHOTO-FINISH mettrai
Nearest frequency peer: mettrai (-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 « mile »
Pairs de poids proche dans le corpus, séparés des confusables ci-dessous
- maçons
maçons
84,322 corpus weight
- mentalités
mentalités
84,321 corpus weight
- mettrai
mettrai
84,320 corpus weight
- mile
mile
84,319 corpus weight
- Minnesota
Minnesota
84,318 corpus weight
- modifiées
modifiées
84,317 corpus weight
What this shows Les barres placent « mile » 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 | mile |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \majl\ |
| Letters | 4 |
| Frequency rank | #15,682 |
| Misspellings tracked | 3 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Rang de corpus près des confusables de « mile »
Easy to mix with look-alikes
The spelling risk for mile is neighbouring look-alikes ("ML", "mis", …), not just typos; it is anoun pronounced \majl\. Frequency #15,682 among 5,038 “M” headwords. 2 recorded senses keep meaning in play.
Our generated misspelling index lists 3 likely wrong-spelling variants for mile, with forms such as "imle", "mlie", and "mmile". 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, "ML", "mis", "Mme", and more, since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, so its spelling is best explained by sound-to-letter mapping rather than etymology. The correct French form is mile, spelled M-I-L-E.
Definition
- 1Unité de mesure de longueur anglo-saxonne, valant 1,760 yards (verges), soit 5,280 pieds, ou encore exactement 1 609,344 mètres. Son symbole est mi.
- 2Point dans un programme de fidélité par une compagnie aérienne.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how mile appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Les bois où nous sommes dominent sur plus d’un mile une des routes qui mènent hors de la ville.
Il avait abandonné les commissariats de police pour ce petit journal tranquille et prospère, dans cette vallée dans histoires où la construction d’un nouveau mile sur la branche ouest de l’autoroute inter-États faisait figure d’événement cosmique.
Synonyms
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- imle
- mlie
- mmile
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of mile - counted as single-character edits (an insertion, a deletion, or a substituted letter). The larger the bar, the easier the typo is to spot; one-edit slips are the ones that sneak past readers.
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 4 letters (nearest by frequency rank).