mill
\mɪl\
The verdict
“mill” sits in 20 confusable pairs (corpus #19,602) as a noun. The look-alike neighbours are the real trap.
- #19,602
- frequency rank, French
- 5,038
- “M” headwords
- 3
- tracked misspellings
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Moulin.
Corpus desk
Index FR-mill · mill · French
mill · rank #19,602 · 3 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-MID #19,602
- LEN-MID 4 letters
- VOW-1 1 vowel
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-LOW 3 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,038
- PHOTO-FINISH mollet
Nearest frequency peer: mollet (+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.
Voisins de fréquence du confusable « mill »
Pairs de poids proche dans le corpus, séparés des confusables ci-dessous
- Meurthe
Meurthe
80,402 corpus weight
- migraine
migraine
80,401 corpus weight
- mill
mill
80,399 corpus weight
- mollet
mollet
80,398 corpus weight
- monumental
monumental
80,397 corpus weight
- mourra
mourra
80,396 corpus weight
What this shows Les barres placent « mill » face aux lemmes français les plus proches par rang, pas un reprint du bureau des confusables.
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 | mill |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \mɪl\ |
| Letters | 4 |
| Frequency rank | #19,602 |
| Misspellings tracked | 3 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Rang de corpus près des confusables de « mill »
Easy to mix with look-alikes
The spelling risk for mill is neighbouring look-alikes ("ML", "mis", …), not just typos; it is anoun pronounced \mɪl\. Frequency #19,602 among 5,038 “M” headwords. 3 recorded senses keep meaning in play.
Our generated misspelling index lists 3 likely wrong-spelling variants for mill, with forms such as "imll", "mlil", and "mmill". Each of these forms differs from the correct spelling by one small edit: a doubled letter, a dropped silent letter, or a substituted vowel. It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "ML", "mis", "min", and more, since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
This entry's etymology isn't recorded, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct French form is mill, spelled M-I-L-L.
Definition
- 1Moulin.
- 2Usine.
- 3Fraise.
Synonyms
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- imll
- mlil
- mmill
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of mill - expressed in single-character edits (insert, delete, or swap one letter). Bigger bars stand out at a glance; a one-edit slip is the hardest to catch.
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 4 letters (nearest by frequency rank).