millet

\mi.jɛ\

/\mi.jɛ\/ noun

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The verdict

“millet” has 7 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #21,396. The variants make it a useful spelling check.

#21,396
frequency rank, French
5,038
“M” headwords
7
tracked misspellings
20
confusable pairs

According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Nom donné à plusieurs plantes de la famille des Poacées (Poaceae) qui porte une petite graine alimentaire.

Corpus desk

Index FR-millet · millet · French

millet · rank #21,396 · 7 variants · 20 confusables

  • FREQ-MID #21,396
  • LEN-LONG 6 letters
  • VOW-2 2 vowels
  • CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
  • VAR-MID 7 variants
  • BOOK-DENSE 5,038
  • PHOTO-FINISH miliciens

Nearest frequency peer: miliciens (-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.

Pairs de rang près de l'aimant d'erreurs « millet »

Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin

corpus weight

What this shows « millet » siège parmi ces pairs FrequencyWords; la profondeur des fautes est suivie à part dans le graphique d'édition.

Source FrequencyWords open word-frequency list As of September 3, 2026

Visual similarity to commonly confused words

How many letter changes separate each confused pair (Levenshtein distance, normalized).

millet vs Mlle
50% similar
millet vs molle
67% similar
millet vs Mills
50% similar

Source: PlainSpell confusable corpus (Wiktionary, CC BY-SA).

Key facts for millet
PropertyValue
Headwordmillet
LanguageFrench
Part of speechNoun
IPA\mi.jɛ\
Letters6
Frequency rank#21,396
Misspellings tracked7
Confusable pairs20
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « millet »

Cette échelle va du noyau du français courant (gauche) jusqu'à la traîne des formes rares (droite).milletse place ici:

#1#100#1K#10K#100K
← used constantlyrarely used →

Les tics avancent en logarithme; chacun est de l'ordre de dix fois plus rare. Dans la même bande de rareté figurent « miliciens » (#21,395), « merveilleusement » (#21,394), « Mississippi » (#21,398). Parmi 5,038 lemmes en « M », « millet » est au #21,396. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

A misspelling magnet

The generator records 7 spelling variants around millet (IPA \mi.jɛ\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #21,396 among 5,038 “M” headwords. Wiktionary lists 3 senses, so context still picks the gloss.

Our generated misspelling index lists 7 likely wrong-spelling variants for millet, with forms such as "imllet", "milelt", and "milet". Each of these forms differs from the correct spelling by one small edit: a doubled letter, a dropped silent letter, or a substituted vowel. It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "Mlle", "molle", "Mills", and more, since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.

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 millet, spelled M-I-L-L-E-T.

Definition

  1. 1
    Nom donné à plusieurs plantes de la famille des Poacées (Poaceae) qui porte une petite graine alimentaire.
  2. 2
    La graine de cette plante.
  3. 3
    Grain de millet : Petit kyste palpébral.

Recorded use

Wiktionary examples

These source excerpts show how millet appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.

  1. Semer du millet.
  2. Céréale de base, le millet est un produit vivrier par excellence et l’une des cultures enracinées dans la civilisation agraire des Ambuun.

Synonyms

mil

This word in other languages

millet(English)mijo(Español)Hirse(Deutsch)

Common misspellings

Also misspelled as:

  • imllet
  • milelt
  • milet
  • millett
  • millte
  • mlilet
  • mmillet

Misspelling Pattern Breakdown

How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of millet - expressed in single-character edits (insert, delete, or swap one letter). Bigger bars stand out at a glance; a one-edit slip is the hardest to catch.

imllet2milelt2milet1millett1millte2mlilet2mmillet1
Edit distance from "millet"

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.

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "millet"?
"millet" is spelled M-I-L-L-E-T. The IPA pronunciation is \mi.jɛ\.
What does "millet" mean?
As a noun, "millet" means: Nom donné à plusieurs plantes de la famille des Poacées (Poaceae) qui porte une petite graine alimentaire.
What words are commonly confused with "millet"?
"millet" is commonly confused with "Mlle", "molle", "Mills". These words look or sound similar but have different meanings. PlainSpell provides detailed comparisons for each pair.
How do you pronounce "millet"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "millet" is \mi.jɛ\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "millet" come from?
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Similar French words by spelling shape

Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "millet", not the corpus desk frequency band.

Same letter count

Frequency-ranked French headwords with 6 letters (nearest by frequency rank).

manifs#21,386natifs#21,408Oregon#21,414libido#21,376

Similar misspelling depth

Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (7 here; floor ≥5).

Nabil7 variantsmages7 variantslunes7 variantshijab7 variants

Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org) Structured Wiktionary extract

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list