millerand
\mil.ʁɑ̃\
The verdict
“millerand” is uncommon French (frequency #66,113 among 5,038 “M” headwords), classed as an adjective. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #66,113
- frequency rank, French
- 5,038
- “M” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Aux grains très petits, en grand nombre. Avortement partiel des grains de raisin.
Corpus desk
Index FR-millerand · millerand · French
millerand · rank #66,113 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #66,113
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,038
- PHOTO-FINISH Milford
Nearest frequency peer: Milford (-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 « millerand »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
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33,891 corpus weight
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33,890 corpus weight
- Milford
Milford
33,889 corpus weight
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millerand
33,888 corpus weight
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33,886 corpus weight
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33,885 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « millerand » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | millerand |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | \mil.ʁɑ̃\ |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #66,113 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « millerand » en français
Rare enough to double-check
millerand is uncommon French at frequency #66,113 among 5,038 “M” headwords, classed as anadjective, transcribed \mil.ʁɑ̃\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Aux grains très petits, en grand nombre. Avortement partiel des grains de raisin.".
Zero misspellings are on record for millerand in our index, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. 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.
No documented word history exists for this headword, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct French form is millerand, spelled M-I-L-L-E-R-A-N-D.
Definition
- 1Aux grains très petits, en grand nombre. Avortement partiel des grains de raisin.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how millerand appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Raisins millerands, raisins donnant des grains très petits, en grand nombre, et dépourvus de pépins. Cette anomalie est due à des pluies et du froid survenus au moment de la floraison.
Il s’agit de millerandage, qui provient d’une fécondation imparfaite de la vigne. Les raisins dont les fleurs d’origine ont été mal fécondées restent petits et se développent sans pépins. À maturité, ces baies sont plus sucrées. On parle de raisins “millerands”.
Synonyms
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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