millénium
\mil.le.njɔm\
The verdict
“millénium” is uncommon French (frequency #51,610 among 5,038 “M” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #51,610
- frequency rank, French
- 5,038
- “M” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Règne terrestre du Messie avant le jugement dernier, d'une durée de mille ans, époque rêvée par les millénaires, millénaristes ou chiliastes.
Corpus desk
Index FR-millenium · millénium · French
millénium · rank #51,610 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #51,610
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,038
- PHOTO-FINISH micron
Nearest frequency peer: micron (-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.
Rangs de longue queue près de « millénium »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- mesurez
mesurez
48,394 corpus weight
- microbrasse…
microbrasserie
48,393 corpus weight
- micron
micron
48,392 corpus weight
- millénium
millénium
48,391 corpus weight
- mirador
mirador
48,390 corpus weight
- Mombasa
Mombasa
48,388 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « millénium » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | millénium |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \mil.le.njɔm\ |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #51,610 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « millénium » en français
Rare enough to double-check
millénium is uncommon French at frequency #51,610 among 5,038 “M” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \mil.le.njɔm\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
millénium has no tracked misspelling variants, since its letter sequence doesn't invite the usual edit-distance slips. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, which usually means its spelling is distinct enough that readers don't reach for a similar-looking word instead.
Our source data has no etymology on file for this entry, so its spelling is best read as a straightforward mapping from sound to letter. The correct French form is millénium, spelled M-I-L-L-É-N-I-U-M.
Definition
- 1Règne terrestre du Messie avant le jugement dernier, d'une durée de mille ans, époque rêvée par les millénaires, millénaristes ou chiliastes.
- 2Longue période de paix et de bonheur sur terre.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how millénium appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Les fidèles de l'aurore du millénium pour qui le Christ, déjà réincarné, vit parmi nous, à notre insu.
Depuis Baboeuf jusqu'à Saint-Simon et Fourier, depuis Proudhon, Louis Blanc et Cabet jusqu'à l'Internationale, plusieurs sortes de milléniums ont été construits sur le papier, et nous savons quels ravages ils font dans des cerveaux incultes conduits par des cerveaux demi-cultivés.
This word in other languages
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.
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Frequency-ranked French headwords with 9 letters (nearest by frequency rank).