mille-feuilles
\mil.fœj\
The verdict
“mille-feuilles” is uncommon French (outside the top frequency list), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency French
- 14
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Pluriel de mille-feuille (plante).
Corpus desk
Index FR-mille-feuilles · mille-feuilles · French
mille-feuilles · unranked · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-UNRANKED Unranked
- LEN-MEGA 14 letters
- VOW-6 6 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-THIN "M" thin
- PHOTO-UNK Peer pending
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.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | mille-feuilles |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \mil.fœj\ |
| Letters | 14 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
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Rare enough to double-check
mille-feuilles is uncommon French outside the top frequency list, classed as anoun, transcribed \mil.fœj\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Pluriel de mille-feuille (plante).".
The misspelling generator found no plausible variants for mille-feuilles, since its letter sequence doesn't invite the usual edit-distance slips. Our dataset records no confusable match here, a sign it's visually distinctive enough not to be mixed up with another word.
No documented word history exists for this headword, so its spelling is easiest explained by how it's pronounced rather than where it came from. The correct French form is mille-feuilles, spelled M-I-L-L-E---F-E-U-I-L-L-E-S.
Definition
- 1Pluriel de mille-feuille (plante).
Definitions, pronunciation, and etymology for this entry are drawn from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org structured extract (CC BY-SA). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.