milliard

\mi.ljaʁ\

/\mi.ljaʁ\/ noun

The verdict

“milliard” has 10 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #5,584. The variants make it a useful spelling check.

#5,584
frequency rank, French
5,038
“M” headwords
10
tracked misspellings
5
confusable pairs

According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Mille millions (10⁹=1 000 000 000).

Corpus desk

Index FR-milliard · milliard · French

milliard · rank #5,584 · 10 variants · 5 confusables

  • FREQ-COMMON #5,584
  • LEN-LONG 8 letters
  • VOW-3 3 vowels
  • CONFUS-MID 5 pairs
  • VAR-MID 10 variants
  • BOOK-DENSE 5,038
  • PHOTO-FINISH mensonges

Nearest frequency peer: mensonges (-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 « milliard »

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

corpus weight

What this shows « milliard » 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).

milliard vs millier
75% similar
milliard vs milliers
75% similar
milliard vs milliards
89% similar

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

Key facts for milliard
PropertyValue
Headwordmilliard
LanguageFrench
Part of speechNoun
IPA\mi.ljaʁ\
Letters8
Frequency rank#5,584
Misspellings tracked10
Confusable pairs5
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « milliard »

La fréquence va de la poignée de mots du quotidien (gauche) à la longue queue presque jamais vue (droite).milliardse place ici:

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

L'échelle est logarithmique (chaque tic ≈ 10× plus rare). Dans la même bande de rareté figurent « mensonges » (#5,583), « musical » (#5,585), « marquis » (#5,582). Parmi 5,038 lemmes en « M », « milliard » est au #5,584. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

A misspelling magnet

The generator records 10 spelling variants around milliard (IPA \mi.ljaʁ\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #5,584 among 5,038 “M” headwords. Wiktionary lists 4 senses, so context still picks the gloss.

Our generated misspelling index lists 10 likely wrong-spelling variants for milliard, with forms such as "imlliard", "miliard", and "mililard". Every one of these variants traces to a single-character edit -- an added or dropped letter, a swapped consonant, or a vowel swap -- the kind of slip a spell-checker is built to catch. It also participates in 5 confusable-pair relationships, "millier", "milliers", "milliards", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.

No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so its spelling is best explained by sound-to-letter mapping rather than etymology. The correct French form is milliard, spelled M-I-L-L-I-A-R-D.

Definition

  1. 1
    Mille millions (10⁹=1 000 000 000).
  2. 2
    Milliard de l’unité monétaire couramment utilisée et sous-entendue, ou, parfois, d’une ancienne unité monétaire dont on a gardé l’habitude.
  3. 3
    Grand nombre, souvent utilisé pour exagérer, pour donner de l’emphase.
  4. 4
    Sorte de clafoutis auvergnat aux cerises ou aux raisins.

Recorded use

Wiktionary examples

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

  1. Chaque année, la nappe perd plus d'un million de mètres cubes, soit plus d'un milliards de litres, et son niveau baisse dangereusement.
  2. Après tout, la population du globe est, dit-on, de quatorze cents millions d’âmes, et à trente-deux dents par habitant, cela fait près de quarante-cinq milliards.

Synonyms

This word in other languages

Common misspellings

Also misspelled as:

  • imlliard
  • miliard
  • mililard
  • millaird
  • milliadr
  • milliardd
  • milliarrd
  • millirad
  • mliliard
  • mmilliard

Misspelling Pattern Breakdown

How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of milliard - measured in single-character edits (insert, delete, or substitute a letter). Larger bars are easier to catch; one-edit slips are the sneakiest.

imlliard2miliard1mililard2millaird2milliadr2milliardd1milliarrd1millirad2
Edit distance from "milliard"

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 "milliard"?
"milliard" is spelled M-I-L-L-I-A-R-D. The IPA pronunciation is \mi.ljaʁ\.
What does "milliard" mean?
As a noun, "milliard" means: Mille millions (10⁹=1 000 000 000).
What words are commonly confused with "milliard"?
"milliard" is commonly confused with "millier", "milliers", "milliards". These words look or sound similar but have different meanings. PlainSpell provides detailed comparisons for each pair.
How do you pronounce "milliard"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "milliard" is \mi.ljaʁ\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "milliard" come from?
"milliard" is a French word. You can look up definitions, pronunciations, and spelling data for this and other words across English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, and German on PlainSpell.
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Similar French words by spelling shape

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

Same letter count

Frequency-ranked French headwords with 8 letters (nearest by frequency rank).

Similar misspelling depth

Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (10 here; floor ≥5).

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

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list