mille fois
\mil fwa\
The verdict
“mille fois” is uncommon French (outside the top frequency list), classed as an adverb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency French
- 10
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - 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
Rare enough to double-check
mille fois is uncommon French outside the top frequency list, classed as anadverb, transcribed \mil fwa\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Fort souvent.".
The misspelling generator found no plausible variants for mille fois, typically a sign the spelling maps closely to how the word sounds. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, since no other headword is close enough in sound or shape to pair with it.
No documented word history exists for this headword, so any spelling logic here comes from how the word's sounds map to letters, not a documented origin story. The correct French form is mille fois, spelled M-I-L-L-E- -F-O-I-S.
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.
- Say it as \mil fwa\ (IPA); tap the speaker on the pronunciation badge to hear it where audio exists.
- Browse more French words and confusable pairs in the same reference. French words
Data Source
Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Word ordering uses an open word-frequency list; misspelling variants are generated by edit-distance from the correct headword.