militer
\mi.li.te\
The verdict
“militer” has 10 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #28,252. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #28,252
- frequency rank, French
- 5,038
- “M” headwords
- 10
- tracked misspellings
- 18
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Combattre.
Corpus desk
Index FR-militer · militer · French
militer · rank #28,252 · 10 variants · 18 confusables
- FREQ-MID #28,252
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-HIGH 18 pairs
- VAR-MID 10 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,038
- PHOTO-FINISH midnight
Nearest frequency peer: midnight (-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 « militer »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- mathématiqu…
mathématiquement
71,752 corpus weight
- midnight
midnight
71,750 corpus weight
- militer
militer
71,749 corpus weight
- misères
misères
71,748 corpus weight
- mitrailleuse
mitrailleuse
71,747 corpus weight
- modestement
modestement
71,746 corpus weight
What this shows « militer » 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 | militer |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \mi.li.te\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #28,252 |
| Misspellings tracked | 10 |
| Confusable pairs | 18 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « militer »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 10 spelling variants around militer (IPA \mi.li.te\), averb. Corpus frequency is #28,252 among 5,038 “M” headwords. Wiktionary lists 3 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 10 likely wrong-spelling variants for militer, with forms such as "imliter", "miilter", and "milietr". 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 18 confusable-pair relationships, "Miller", "mixité", "mister", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, so its spelling is best read as a straightforward mapping from sound to letter. The correct French form is militer, spelled M-I-L-I-T-E-R.
Definition
- 1Combattre.
- 2Mener une lutte des idées afin de convaincre, en parlant des partisans politiques, philosophiques, religieux, etc.
- 3Déterminer un argument ou une action favorable ou défavorable, pour ou contre quelqu'un ou quelque chose.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how militer appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Dubois se veut le successeur de Richelieu et de Mazarin ; il rêve de la pourpre cardinalice, mais sa vie privée milite peu en faveur d'une telle promotion. Il n'a jamais caché son goût pour les femmes.
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- imliter
- miilter
- milietr
- militerr
- militre
- militter
- milliter
- miltier
- mliiter
- mmiliter
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of militer - 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
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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).