mille fois
The verdict
“mille fois” is outside the top-ranked French vocabulary, used as an adverb - the kind of word writers most often double-check.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency French
- 10
- letters
Dominant Wiktionary sense: Fort souvent.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | mille fois |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adverb |
| IPA | \mil fwa\ |
| Letters | 10 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “mille fois” sits in French frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for mille fois is 10 letters long, classified as an adverb, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \mil fwa\. It sits outside the most-frequent rank tiers, which is often why uncommon words generate more spelling variants per reader. The dominant gloss from Wiktionary reads: "Fort souvent.".
No misspelling variants are generated for mille fois in our index, suggesting the orthography follows predictable French patterns. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. For readers arriving here from a spelling check, the authoritative guidance is: the correct French form is mille fois, spelled M-I-L-L-E- -F-O-I-S, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Fort souvent.
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.
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Using “mille fois”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct French spelling is M-I-L-L-E- -F-O-I-S - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
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