millard

\mi.jaʁ\

/\mi.jaʁ\/ noun

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

corpus weight

What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « millard » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.

Source FrequencyWords open word-frequency list As of September 3, 2026
Key facts for millard
PropertyValue
Headwordmillard
LanguageFrench
Part of speechNoun
IPA\mi.jaʁ\
Letters7
Frequency rank#70,026
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Longue queue: rang de « millard » en français

Cette échelle va du noyau du français courant (gauche) jusqu'à la traîne des formes rares (droite).millardtombe dans cette queue de rareté:

#1#100#1K#10K#100K
← used constantlyrarely used →

Les tics avancent en logarithme; chacun est de l'ordre de dix fois plus rare. Voisins rares de la même bande: « Millar » (#70,025), « Mimizan » (#70,027), « mincir » (#70,028). Parmi 5,038 lemmes en « M », « millard » est au #70,026. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

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

  1. 1
    Clafoutis, le plus souvent aux cerises non dénoyautées.

Recorded use

Wiktionary examples

These source excerpts show how millard appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.

  1. Les plus populaires sont la pompe aux pommes en hiver et le millard en été (sorte de clafoutis aux cerises noires non dénoyautées).
  2. 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.

Synonyms

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.

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "millard"?
"millard" is spelled M-I-L-L-A-R-D. The IPA pronunciation is \mi.jaʁ\.
What does "millard" mean?
As a noun, "millard" means: Clafoutis, le plus souvent aux cerises non dénoyautées.
How do you pronounce "millard"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "millard" is \mi.jaʁ\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "millard" come from?
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Similar French words by spelling shape

Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "millard", not the corpus desk frequency band.

Same letter count

Frequency-ranked French headwords with 7 letters (nearest by frequency rank).

Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org) Structured Wiktionary extract

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list