military
\ˈmɪl.ɪ.tɹɪ\
The verdict
“military” has 12 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #41,406. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #41,406
- frequency rank, French
- 5,038
- “M” headwords
- 12
- tracked misspellings
- 4
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Militaire
Corpus desk
Index FR-military · military · French
military · rank #41,406 · 12 variants · 4 confusables
- FREQ-MID #41,406
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 4 pairs
- VAR-MID 12 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,038
- PHOTO-FINISH Mermoz
Nearest frequency peer: Mermoz (-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 « military »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- means
means
58,598 corpus weight
- mercantile
mercantile
58,597 corpus weight
- Mermoz
Mermoz
58,596 corpus weight
- military
military
58,595 corpus weight
- milligrammes
milligrammes
58,594 corpus weight
- mimiques
mimiques
58,593 corpus weight
What this shows « military » 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 | military |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ˈmɪl.ɪ.tɹɪ\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #41,406 |
| Misspellings tracked | 12 |
| Confusable pairs | 4 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « military »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 12 spelling variants around military (IPA \ˈmɪl.ɪ.tɹɪ\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #41,406 among 5,038 “M” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Militaire".
Our generated misspelling index lists 12 likely wrong-spelling variants for military, with forms such as "imlitary", "miiltary", and "miliatry". Every one of these variants traces to a single-character edit -- an added or dropped letter, a swapped consonant, or a vowel swap -- the kind of slip a spell-checker is built to catch. It also participates in 4 confusable-pair relationships, "militer", "militant", "militari", and more, since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so its spelling is best explained by sound-to-letter mapping rather than etymology. The correct French form is military, spelled M-I-L-I-T-A-R-Y.
Definition
- 1Militaire
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- imlitary
- miiltary
- miliatry
- militarry
- militaryy
- militayr
- militray
- milittary
- millitary
- miltiary
- mliitary
- mmilitary
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of military - counted as single-character edits (an insertion, a deletion, or a substituted letter). The larger the bar, the easier the typo is to spot; one-edit slips are the ones that sneak past readers.
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
Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "military", not the corpus desk frequency band.
Same letter count
Frequency-ranked French headwords with 8 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (12 here; floor ≥5).