milk
\mɪlk\
The verdict
“milk” has 6 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #27,129. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #27,129
- frequency rank, French
- 5,038
- “M” headwords
- 6
- tracked misspellings
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Deuxième personne du singulier de l’impératif présent de melken.
Corpus desk
Index FR-milk · milk · French
milk · rank #27,129 · 6 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-MID #27,129
- LEN-MID 4 letters
- VOW-1 1 vowel
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-MID 6 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,038
- PHOTO-FINISH migrer
Nearest frequency peer: migrer (-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 « milk »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- mendiant
mendiant
72,874 corpus weight
- migrer
migrer
72,873 corpus weight
- milk
milk
72,872 corpus weight
- misogyne
misogyne
72,871 corpus weight
- mixage
mixage
72,870 corpus weight
- mmh
mmh
72,869 corpus weight
What this shows « milk » 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 | milk |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \mɪlk\ |
| Letters | 4 |
| Frequency rank | #27,129 |
| Misspellings tracked | 6 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « milk »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 6 spelling variants around milk (IPA \mɪlk\), averb. Corpus frequency is #27,129 among 5,038 “M” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Deuxième personne du singulier de l’impératif présent de melken.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 6 likely wrong-spelling variants for milk, with forms such as "imlk", "mikl", and "milkk". 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 20 confusable-pair relationships, "ML", "MK", "mis", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, so its spelling pattern is best understood through pronunciation rather than a traceable origin. The correct French form is milk, spelled M-I-L-K.
Definition
- 1Deuxième personne du singulier de l’impératif présent de melken.
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- imlk
- mikl
- milkk
- millk
- mlik
- mmilk
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of milk - 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
Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "milk", not the corpus desk frequency band.
Same letter count
Frequency-ranked French headwords with 4 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (6 here; floor ≥5).