millet
French, noun/mi.jɛ/
millet is spelled M-I-L-L-E-T (6 letters) and appears 1.9 times per million words in written French, the 21,266th most frequent French word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Millet is a French masculine noun meaning “millet (grain)” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Nom donné à plusieurs plantes de la famille des Poacées (Poaceae) qui porte une petite graine alimentaire”.
What does millet mean in English?
noun
- 1
masculinemillet (grain)
Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How French dictionaries define it
noun: 1. Nom donné à plusieurs plantes de la famille des Poacées (Poaceae) qui porte une petite graine alimentaire. 2. La graine de cette plante. 3. Grain de millet : Petit kyste palpébral.
noun: 1. Communauté religieuse légalement protégée, dans les États islamiques.
The definition in the French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire), in French.
Source: French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire), dump of September 1, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org.
Forms of millet
- millets plural
Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce millet?
- /mi.jɛ/
- \mi.jɛ\
Sources: English Wiktionary, French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
English words that translate to millet
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is millet in French?
millet appears 1.9 times per million words in written French.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).