milicien
\mi.li.sjɛ̃\
The verdict
“milicien” is uncommon French (frequency #52,198 among 5,038 “M” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #52,198
- frequency rank, French
- 5,038
- “M” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Soldat d'une milice.
Corpus desk
Index FR-milicien · milicien · French
milicien · rank #52,198 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #52,198
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,038
- PHOTO-FINISH militarisme
Nearest frequency peer: militarisme (+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 « milicien »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- merleau
merleau
47,807 corpus weight
- mighty
mighty
47,805 corpus weight
- milicien
milicien
47,803 corpus weight
- militarisme
militarisme
47,802 corpus weight
- minuterie
minuterie
47,801 corpus weight
- mirabelle
mirabelle
47,800 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « milicien » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | milicien |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \mi.li.sjɛ̃\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #52,198 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « milicien » en français
Rare enough to double-check
milicien is uncommon French at frequency #52,198 among 5,038 “M” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \mi.li.sjɛ̃\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
milicien has no tracked misspelling variants, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. Our dataset records no confusable match here, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, 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 milicien, spelled M-I-L-I-C-I-E-N.
Definition
- 1Soldat d'une milice.
- 2Membre de la Milice française, créée en 1943 par le régime de Vichy.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how milicien appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Le milicien céleste est un jeune homme rehaussé en couleurs, frisé d'une perruque ébouriffée, armé de la lance de rigueur et serré dans une cotte d’armes en écailles de poisson
Véronique Nahoum-Grappe, qu’on ne peut soupçonner de complaisance envers les hommes et qui a fort bien dénoncé les violences des miliciens serbes avinés en Bosnie, lors des viols de guerre, a aussi évoqué « le violeur enivré (qui) s’endort avant de commettre son crime ».
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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