millette
\mi.jɛt\
The verdict
“millette” is uncommon French (frequency #97,164 among 5,038 “M” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #97,164
- frequency rank, French
- 5,038
- “M” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Variété de maïs.
Corpus desk
Index FR-millette · millette · French
millette · rank #97,164 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #97,164
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,038
- PHOTO-FINISH militarisé
Nearest frequency peer: militarisé (-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 « millette »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- mik
mik
2,839 corpus weight
- militarisé
militarisé
2,838 corpus weight
- millette
millette
2,837 corpus weight
- milliaire
milliaire
2,836 corpus weight
- milliseconde
milliseconde
2,835 corpus weight
- mimo
mimo
2,834 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « millette » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | millette |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \mi.jɛt\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #97,164 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « millette » en français
Rare enough to double-check
millette is uncommon French at frequency #97,164 among 5,038 “M” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \mi.jɛt\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Variété de maïs.".
No generated misspelling entries exist for millette in our index, typically a sign the spelling maps closely to how the word sounds. No confusable counterpart is on file for this word, which typically means the spelling is too distinctive to be mistaken for another word.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct French form is millette, spelled M-I-L-L-E-T-T-E.
Definition
- 1Variété de maïs.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how millette appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Ce maïs [quarantain] est bien moins productif que le maïs ordinaire et les variétés à petits grains appelées millettes dans la Gascogne et le Languedoc.
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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