milices
\mi.lis\
The verdict
“milices” has 10 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #12,815. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #12,815
- frequency rank, French
- 5,038
- “M” headwords
- 10
- tracked misspellings
- 12
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Pluriel de milice.
Corpus desk
Index FR-milices · milices · French
milices · rank #12,815 · 10 variants · 12 confusables
- FREQ-MID #12,815
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 12 pairs
- VAR-MID 10 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,038
- PHOTO-FINISH migrations
Nearest frequency peer: migrations (-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 « milices »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- mentionnée
mentionnée
87,189 corpus weight
- mettrait
mettrait
87,188 corpus weight
- migrations
migrations
87,187 corpus weight
- milices
milices
87,186 corpus weight
- minimiser
minimiser
87,185 corpus weight
- modérés
modérés
87,184 corpus weight
What this shows « milices » 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).
Source: PlainSpell confusable corpus (Wiktionary, CC BY-SA).
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | milices |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \mi.lis\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #12,815 |
| Misspellings tracked | 10 |
| Confusable pairs | 12 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « milices »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 10 spelling variants around milices (IPA \mi.lis\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #12,815 among 5,038 “M” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Pluriel de milice.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 10 likely wrong-spelling variants for milices, with forms such as "imlices", "miilces", and "milcies". 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 12 confusable-pair relationships, "milieu", "milles", "minces", and more, a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.
No borrowing history is documented 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 milices, spelled M-I-L-I-C-E-S.
Definition
- 1Pluriel de milice.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how milices appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Dans un pays très vite « débaasisé » à l’instigation du directeur de la reconstruction et de l’assistance humanitaire, l’Américain Paul Bremer, une guerre civile a secoué le pays, opposant un pouvoir à forte coloration chiite soutenue plus ou moins par des milices de la même obédience et des groupes sunnites dont Al-Qaida.
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- imlices
- miilces
- milcies
- milicces
- milicess
- milicse
- miliecs
- millices
- mliices
- mmilices
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of milices - measured in single-character edits (insert, delete, or substitute a letter). Larger bars are easier to catch; one-edit slips are the sneakiest.
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 7 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (10 here; floor ≥5).