Milet
\mi.lɛ\
The verdict
“Milet” is uncommon French (frequency #58,089 among 5,038 “M” headwords), classed as a proper noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #58,089
- frequency rank, French
- 5,038
- “M” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Ancienne cité grecque ionienne.
Corpus desk
Index FR-milet · Milet · French
Milet · rank #58,089 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #58,089
- LEN-MID 5 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,038
- PHOTO-FINISH merles
Nearest frequency peer: merles (-2 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 « Milet »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- Meer
Meer
41,916 corpus weight
- melrose
melrose
41,915 corpus weight
- merles
merles
41,914 corpus weight
- Milet
Milet
41,912 corpus weight
- minimisé
minimisé
41,910 corpus weight
- mitaines
mitaines
41,908 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « Milet » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Milet |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| IPA | \mi.lɛ\ |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #58,089 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « Milet » en français
Rare enough to double-check
Milet is uncommon French at frequency #58,089 among 5,038 “M” headwords, classed as aproper noun, transcribed \mi.lɛ\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Ancienne cité grecque ionienne.".
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for Milet, a sign its spelling follows regular French conventions. No confusable counterpart is on file for this word, which typically means the spelling is too distinctive to be mistaken for another word.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. The correct French form is Milet, spelled M-I-L-E-T.
Definition
- 1Ancienne cité grecque ionienne.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how Milet appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Thalès de Milet, Anaximandre, Empédocle puis Aristote dans ses « Météorologiques » tentent d’expliquer les cycles de l’eau et du vent.
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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