mille

\mil\

/\mil\/ adj

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The verdict

“mille” sits in 20 confusable pairs (corpus #1,924) as an adjective. The look-alike neighbours are the real trap.

#1,924
frequency rank, French
5,038
“M” headwords
4
tracked misspellings
20
confusable pairs

According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Dix fois cent unités, 10³

Corpus desk

Index FR-mille · mille · French

mille · rank #1,924 · 4 variants · 20 confusables

  • FREQ-COMMON #1,924
  • LEN-MID 5 letters
  • VOW-2 2 vowels
  • CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
  • VAR-LOW 4 variants
  • BOOK-DENSE 5,038
  • PHOTO-FINISH juifs

Nearest frequency peer: juifs (-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 « mille »

Pairs de poids proche dans le corpus, séparés des confusables ci-dessous

corpus weight

What this shows Les barres placent « mille » face aux lemmes français les plus proches par rang, pas un reprint du bureau des confusables.

Source FrequencyWords open word-frequency list As of September 3, 2026

Visual similarity to commonly confused words

How many letter changes separate each confused pair (Levenshtein distance, normalized).

mille vs mle
60% similar
mille vs mise
60% similar
mille vs mine
60% similar

Source: PlainSpell confusable corpus (Wiktionary, CC BY-SA).

Key facts for mille
PropertyValue
Headwordmille
LanguageFrench
Part of speechAdjective
IPA\mil\
Letters5
Frequency rank#1,924
Misspellings tracked4
Confusable pairs20
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Rang de corpus près des confusables de « mille »

De gauche à droite: le peu qui porte la parole quotidienne, puis la longue queue quasi invisible.millese place ici:

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

Les tics avancent en logarithme; chacun est de l'ordre de dix fois plus rare. Dans la même bande de rareté figurent « juifs » (#1,923), « pain » (#1,925), « journalistes » (#1,922). Parmi 5,038 lemmes en « M », « mille » est au #1,924. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

Easy to mix with look-alikes

The spelling risk for mille is neighbouring look-alikes ("mle", "mise", …), not just typos; it is anadjective pronounced \mil\. Frequency #1,924 among 5,038 “M” headwords. 2 recorded senses keep meaning in play.

Our generated misspelling index lists 4 likely wrong-spelling variants for mille, with forms such as "imlle", "milel", and "mlile". 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, "mle", "mise", "mine", and more, a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.

No documented word history exists for this headword, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct French form is mille, spelled M-I-L-L-E.

Definition

  1. 1
    Dix fois cent unités, 10³
  2. 2
    Quantité indéfinie mais fort grande.

Recorded use

Wiktionary examples

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

  1. Dans un tiroir, il y avait trente billets de mille francs, trente, attachés, par paquets de dix, avec des faveurs roses, ainsi que des lettres d’amour...
  2. Dix ou vingt mille cornes, klaxons et trompes proclament éperdument la mobilisation du plaisir ; […]

Synonyms

1000kilokcentcinquante

This word in other languages

thousand(English)mil(Español)tausend(Deutsch)mil(Português)

Common misspellings

Also misspelled as:

  • imlle
  • milel
  • mlile
  • mmille

Misspelling Pattern Breakdown

How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of mille - measured in single-character edits (insert, delete, or substitute a letter). Larger bars are easier to catch; one-edit slips are the sneakiest.

imlle2milel2mlile2mmille1
Edit distance from "mille"

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 "mille"?
"mille" is spelled M-I-L-L-E. The IPA pronunciation is \mil\.
What does "mille" mean?
As an adjective, "mille" means: Dix fois cent unités, 10³
What words are commonly confused with "mille"?
"mille" is commonly confused with "mle", "mise", "mine". These words look or sound similar but have different meanings. PlainSpell provides detailed comparisons for each pair.
How do you pronounce "mille"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "mille" is \mil\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "mille" come from?
"mille" is a French word. PlainSpell covers definitions, pronunciations, and spelling data across English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, and German.
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Similar French words by spelling shape

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

Same letter count

Frequency-ranked French headwords with 5 letters (nearest by frequency rank).

juifs#1,923issue#1,921plans#1,929fiche#1,917

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

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list