mille-pieds
\mil pje\
The verdict
“mille-pieds” is uncommon French (outside the top frequency list), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency French
- 11
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - Ancien synonyme de mille-pattes (type d’arthropode).
Corpus desk
Index FR-mille-pieds · mille-pieds · French
mille-pieds · unranked · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-UNRANKED Unranked
- LEN-MEGA 11 letters
- VOW-4 4 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-pieds |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \mil pje\ |
| Letters | 11 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “mille-pieds” sits in French frequency
Rare enough to double-check
mille-pieds is uncommon French outside the top frequency list, classed as anoun, transcribed \mil pje\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Ancien synonyme de mille-pattes (type d’arthropode).".
No misspelling variants are generated for mille-pieds in our index, typically a sign the spelling maps closely to how the word sounds. No confusable counterpart is on file for this word, a sign it's visually distinctive enough not to be mixed up with another word.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, 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 mille-pieds, spelled M-I-L-L-E---P-I-E-D-S.
Definition
- 1Ancien synonyme de mille-pattes (type d’arthropode).
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how mille-pieds appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Il y a des perce-oreilles dans les chantiers des Ursulines, il y a des mille-pieds au Panthéon, il y a des têtards dans les fossés du Champ de Mars.
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