millier
\mi.lje\
The verdict
“millier” has 8 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #10,906. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #10,906
- frequency rank, French
- 5,038
- “M” headwords
- 8
- tracked misspellings
- 13
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Nom de nombre collectif exprimant la quantité de mille.
Corpus desk
Index FR-millier · millier · French
millier · rank #10,906 · 8 variants · 13 confusables
- FREQ-MID #10,906
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 13 pairs
- VAR-MID 8 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,038
- PHOTO-FINISH milice
Nearest frequency peer: milice (-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 « millier »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- maçonnerie
maçonnerie
89,098 corpus weight
- menaçant
menaçant
89,097 corpus weight
- milice
milice
89,096 corpus weight
- millier
millier
89,095 corpus weight
- mixtes
mixtes
89,094 corpus weight
- monseigneur
monseigneur
89,093 corpus weight
What this shows « millier » 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 | millier |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \mi.lje\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #10,906 |
| Misspellings tracked | 8 |
| Confusable pairs | 13 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « millier »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 8 spelling variants around millier (IPA \mi.lje\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #10,906 among 5,038 “M” headwords. Wiktionary lists 3 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 8 likely wrong-spelling variants for millier, with forms such as "imllier", "milier", and "mililer". Each of these forms differs from the correct spelling by one small edit: a doubled letter, a dropped silent letter, or a substituted vowel. It also participates in 13 confusable-pair relationships, "minier", "Müller", "million", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct French form is millier, spelled M-I-L-L-I-E-R.
Definition
- 1Nom de nombre collectif exprimant la quantité de mille.
- 2Autrefois, quantité de certaines matières, pesant mille livres.
- 3Nombre indéfini, mais considérable.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how millier appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Un bon terrain peut fournir jusqu’à cent milliers de betteraves par hectare, j’en ai même récolté jusqu’à cent vingt sur un pré nouvellement défriché.
Nous avons constaté l'essor d'Alès, et Nîmes même a gagné quelques milliers d'âmes de 1912 à 1926.
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- imllier
- milier
- mililer
- milleir
- millierr
- millire
- mlilier
- mmillier
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of millier - counted as single-character edits (an insertion, a deletion, or a substituted letter). The larger the bar, the easier the typo is to spot; one-edit slips are the ones that sneak past readers.
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 7 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (8 here; floor ≥5).