milliard
\mi.ljaʁ\
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
- marchandises
marchandises
94,420 corpus weight
- marquis
marquis
94,419 corpus weight
- mensonges
mensonges
94,418 corpus weight
- milliard
milliard
94,417 corpus weight
- musical
musical
94,416 corpus weight
- mythe
mythe
94,415 corpus weight
What this shows « milliard » siège parmi ces pairs FrequencyWords; la profondeur des fautes est suivie à part dans le graphique d'édition.
Visual similarity to commonly confused words
How many letter changes separate each confused pair (Levenshtein distance, normalized).
Source: PlainSpell confusable corpus (Wiktionary, CC BY-SA).
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | milliard |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \mi.ljaʁ\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #5,584 |
| Misspellings tracked | 10 |
| Confusable pairs | 5 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « milliard »
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
- 1Mille millions (10⁹=1 000 000 000).
- 2Milliard de l’unité monétaire couramment utilisée et sous-entendue, ou, parfois, d’une ancienne unité monétaire dont on a gardé l’habitude.
- 3Grand nombre, souvent utilisé pour exagérer, pour donner de l’emphase.
- 4Sorte de clafoutis auvergnat aux cerises ou aux raisins.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how milliard appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Chaque année, la nappe perd plus d'un million de mètres cubes, soit plus d'un milliards de litres, et son niveau baisse dangereusement.
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.
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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Similar French words by spelling shape
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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).