milice

\mi.lis\

/\mi.lis\/ noun

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The verdict

“milice” has 8 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #10,905. The variants make it a useful spelling check.

#10,905
frequency rank, French
5,038
“M” headwords
8
tracked misspellings
13
confusable pairs

According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Organisation militaire qui tient lieu d’armée permanente et où les citoyens enrôlés ne sont astreints qu’à des périodes d’exercice déterminées.

Corpus desk

Index FR-milice · milice · French

milice · rank #10,905 · 8 variants · 13 confusables

  • FREQ-MID #10,905
  • LEN-LONG 6 letters
  • VOW-3 3 vowels
  • CONFUS-MID 13 pairs
  • VAR-MID 8 variants
  • BOOK-DENSE 5,038
  • PHOTO-FINISH menaçant

Nearest frequency peer: menaçant (-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 « milice »

Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin

corpus weight

What this shows « milice » siège parmi ces pairs FrequencyWords; la profondeur des fautes est suivie à part dans le graphique d'édition.

Source FrequencyWords open word-frequency list As of September 3, 2026

Visual similarity to commonly confused words

How many letter changes separate each confused pair (Levenshtein distance, normalized).

milice vs mille
67% similar
milice vs mince
67% similar
milice vs milieu
67% similar

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

Key facts for milice
PropertyValue
Headwordmilice
LanguageFrench
Part of speechNoun
IPA\mi.lis\
Letters6
Frequency rank#10,905
Misspellings tracked8
Confusable pairs13
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « milice »

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

#1#100#1K#10K#100K
← used constantlyrarely used →

Les tics avancent en logarithme; chacun est de l'ordre de dix fois plus rare. Dans la même bande de rareté figurent « menaçant » (#10,904), « millier » (#10,906), « maçonnerie » (#10,903). Parmi 5,038 lemmes en « M », « milice » est au #10,905. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

A misspelling magnet

The generator records 8 spelling variants around milice (IPA \mi.lis\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #10,905 among 5,038 “M” headwords. Wiktionary lists 6 senses, so context still picks the gloss.

Our generated misspelling index lists 8 likely wrong-spelling variants for milice, with forms such as "imlice", "miilce", and "milcie". 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 13 confusable-pair relationships, "mille", "mince", "milieu", and more, a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.

Our source data has no etymology on file 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 milice, spelled M-I-L-I-C-E.

Definition

  1. 1
    Organisation militaire qui tient lieu d’armée permanente et où les citoyens enrôlés ne sont astreints qu’à des périodes d’exercice déterminées.
  2. 2
    Corps de troupes ainsi composés.
  3. 3
    Corps de troupes ainsi composés.
  4. 4
    Corps de troupes ainsi composés.
  5. 5
    Organisation paramilitaire factieuse qui combat la démocratie par le désordre.
  6. 6
    Armée.

Recorded use

Wiktionary examples

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

  1. Les uns pensent qu’il serait moins coûteux et plus en harmonie avec les coupures du territoire, d’établir dans chaque localité des milices nationales soumises à un mode uniforme d’organisation.
  2. Il avait vu des capitaines de la milice bourgeoise aller de porte en porte.

This word in other languages

militia(English)milicia(Español)

Common misspellings

Also misspelled as:

  • imlice
  • miilce
  • milcie
  • milicce
  • miliec
  • millice
  • mliice
  • mmilice

Misspelling Pattern Breakdown

How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of milice - 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.

imlice2miilce2milcie2milicce1miliec2millice1mliice2mmilice1
Edit distance from "milice"

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 "milice"?
"milice" is spelled M-I-L-I-C-E. The IPA pronunciation is \mi.lis\.
What does "milice" mean?
As a noun, "milice" means: Organisation militaire qui tient lieu d’armée permanente et où les citoyens enrôlés ne sont astreints qu’à des périodes d’exercice déterminées.
What words are commonly confused with "milice"?
"milice" is commonly confused with "mille", "mince", "milieu". These words look or sound similar but have different meanings. PlainSpell provides detailed comparisons for each pair.
How do you pronounce "milice"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "milice" is \mi.lis\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "milice" come from?
"milice" is a French word. PlainSpell covers definitions, pronunciations, and spelling data across English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, and German.
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Similar French words by spelling shape

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

Same letter count

Frequency-ranked French headwords with 6 letters (nearest by frequency rank).

mixtes#10,907manges#10,901méfier#10,910jugent#10,898

Similar misspelling depth

Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (8 here; floor ≥5).

millier8 variantsright8 variantsfinisse8 variantsenvahi8 variants

Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org) Structured Wiktionary extract

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list