millard
\mi.jaʁ\
The verdict
“millard” is uncommon French (frequency #70,026 among 5,038 “M” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #70,026
- frequency rank, French
- 5,038
- “M” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Clafoutis, le plus souvent aux cerises non dénoyautées.
Corpus desk
Index FR-millard · millard · French
millard · rank #70,026 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #70,026
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,038
- PHOTO-FINISH Millar
Nearest frequency peer: Millar (-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.
Rangs de longue queue près de « millard »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- Meulan
Meulan
29,979 corpus weight
- Millar
Millar
29,976 corpus weight
- millard
millard
29,975 corpus weight
- Mimizan
Mimizan
29,974 corpus weight
- mincir
mincir
29,973 corpus weight
- moda
moda
29,970 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « millard » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | millard |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \mi.jaʁ\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #70,026 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « millard » en français
Rare enough to double-check
millard is uncommon French at frequency #70,026 among 5,038 “M” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \mi.jaʁ\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Clafoutis, le plus souvent aux cerises non dénoyautées.".
We couldn't generate a plausible misspelling set for millard, suggesting the orthography follows predictable French patterns. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, which typically means the spelling is too distinctive to be mistaken for another word.
This entry carries no recorded etymology, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. The correct French form is millard, spelled M-I-L-L-A-R-D.
Definition
- 1Clafoutis, le plus souvent aux cerises non dénoyautées.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how millard appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Les plus populaires sont la pompe aux pommes en hiver et le millard en été (sorte de clafoutis aux cerises noires non dénoyautées).
Elle sait qu’il n’y a rien à faire sauf à l’écouter ou à faire semblant jusqu’au moment où, voyant le soir tomber, il expédiera les deux filles dans leur ferme non sans leur avoir glissé dans un petit sac en papier deux grosses parts de millard, ce gâteau aux cerises noires qu’elles dégusteront dans leur lit le soir, dans le noir, en cachette.
This word in other languages
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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