millième

\mi.ljɛm\

/\mi.ljɛm\/ noun

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The verdict

“millième” has 10 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #38,917. The variants make it a useful spelling check.

#38,917
frequency rank, French
5,038
“M” headwords
10
tracked misspellings
4
confusable pairs

According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Élément ordinal, correspondant au cardinal mille.

Corpus desk

Index FR-millieme · millième · French

millième · rank #38,917 · 10 variants · 4 confusables

  • FREQ-MID #38,917
  • LEN-LONG 8 letters
  • VOW-4 4 vowels
  • CONFUS-MID 4 pairs
  • VAR-MID 10 variants
  • BOOK-DENSE 5,038
  • PHOTO-FINISH McKenzie

Nearest frequency peer: McKenzie (-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 « millième »

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

corpus weight

What this shows « millième » 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).

millième vs millier
63% similar
millième vs milliers
63% similar
millième vs millièmes
89% similar

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

Key facts for millième
PropertyValue
Headwordmillième
LanguageFrench
Part of speechNoun
IPA\mi.ljɛm\
Letters8
Frequency rank#38,917
Misspellings tracked10
Confusable pairs4
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « millième »

De gauche à droite: le peu qui porte la parole quotidienne, puis la longue queue quasi invisible.millièmese 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 « McKenzie » (#38,916), « matinées » (#38,915), « mins » (#38,919). Parmi 5,038 lemmes en « M », « millième » est au #38,917. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

A misspelling magnet

The generator records 10 spelling variants around millième (IPA \mi.ljɛm\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #38,917 among 5,038 “M” headwords. Wiktionary lists 6 senses, so context still picks the gloss.

Our generated misspelling index lists 10 likely wrong-spelling variants for millième, with forms such as "imllième", "mililème", and "milième". Each variant is a distinct typo pattern an edit-distance generator flags, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution. It also participates in 4 confusable-pair relationships, "millier", "milliers", "millièmes", and more, a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.

No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so its spelling pattern is best understood through pronunciation rather than a traceable origin. The correct French form is millième, spelled M-I-L-L-I-È-M-E.

Definition

  1. 1
    Élément ordinal, correspondant au cardinal mille.
  2. 2
    Fraction obtenue en divisant mille fois.
  3. 3
    Une des parties d’un tout supposé divisé en mille parties égales.
  4. 4
    Unité de mesure des angles pour les instruments d’orientation et de pointage. Il est l’angle sous lequel on voit un mètre à un kilomètre.
  5. 5
    Unité de division de la copropriété, le total précisé dans l’état descriptif de division n’étant pas forcément 1000.
  6. 6
    Le millième ou millime était la millième partie de la livre égyptienne.

Recorded use

Wiktionary examples

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

  1. Le millième précède le mille-et-unième et suit le neuf cent nonante-neuvième.
  2. Une médaille olympique se joue au millième près.

Synonyms

tantième

This word in other languages

thousandth(English)milésimo(Español)tausendste(Deutsch)milésimo(Português)

Common misspellings

Also misspelled as:

  • imllième
  • mililème
  • milième
  • millieme
  • millimèe
  • millièem
  • millièmme
  • millèime
  • mlilième
  • mmillième

Misspelling Pattern Breakdown

How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of millième - 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.

imllième2mililème2milième1millieme1millimèe2millièem2millièmme1millèime2
Edit distance from "millième"

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 "millième"?
"millième" is spelled M-I-L-L-I-È-M-E. The IPA pronunciation is \mi.ljɛm\.
What does "millième" mean?
As a noun, "millième" means: Élément ordinal, correspondant au cardinal mille.
What words are commonly confused with "millième"?
"millième" is commonly confused with "millier", "milliers", "millièmes". These words look or sound similar but have different meanings. PlainSpell provides detailed comparisons for each pair.
How do you pronounce "millième"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "millième" is \mi.ljɛm\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "millième" come from?
"millième" is a French word. PlainSpell's reference spans five languages -- English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, and German -- with definitions, pronunciations, and spelling data for each.
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Similar French words by spelling shape

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

Same letter count

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

McKenzie#38,916matinées#38,915Manaudou#38,912moissons#38,922

Similar misspelling depth

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

mouvant10 variantsmégots10 variantslonguet10 variantslivrera10 variants

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

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list