milieu
Letters
6 characters
Frequency Rank
#557
in French word usage
Misspellings
7
tracked variants
Confusables
17
similar word pairs
milieu is aFrenchnoun. It means: Endroit qui, dans un lieu ou un objet, est également distant de la périphérie ou des extrémités. Pronounced \mi.ljø\. It ranks #557 in French word frequency. Often confused with mille and Miller.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | milieu |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \mi.ljø\ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #557 |
| Misspellings tracked | 7 |
| Confusable pairs | 17 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for milieu is 6 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \mi.ljø\. Corpus data places it at rank #557 in overall French word frequency, putting it firmly in the everyday core of the language.Wiktionary records 11 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 7 documented wrong-spelling variants for milieu, with forms such as "imlieu", "miileu", and "mileiu". Each variant represents a distinct typo pattern that appears often enough in corpora to be worth flagging, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution.It also participates in 17 confusable-pair relationships, "mille", "Miller", "milles", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
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. For readers arriving here from a spelling check, the authoritative guidance is: the correct French form is milieu, spelled M-I-L-I-E-U, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Endroit qui, dans un lieu ou un objet, est également distant de la périphérie ou des extrémités.
- 2Point situé à égale distance des extrémités du segment.
- 3Tout endroit qui est à une distance plus ou moins égale des extrémités, de la périphérie, sans que cela fût rigoureusement exact.
- 4Point qui est également éloigné des deux termes d’un espace de temps.
- 5Partie centrale des écrits ou des discours, par rapport à leur commencement et à leur fin.
- 6Ce qui est également éloigné de tout ce qui est extrême, exagéré, de ce qui dépasse la mesure.
- 7Substance dans laquelle un corps est placé, ou qui est traversée par un corps ou une radiation.
- 8Ensemble des conditions où vivent les animaux et les végétaux.
- 9Élément propre à la vie d’un être.
- 10Société où nous vivons.
- 11Pègre, l’ensemble des délinquants et des criminels.
Synonyms
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Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: imlieu,miileu,mileiu,miliue,millieu,mliieu,mmilieu
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
Relative frequency of common misspelling types for milieu
Misspelling Variants of "milieu"
Frequency rank: #557 in French
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Nearby French words
Other entries that begin with the letter M in our French index: