millier

\mi.lje\

/\mi.lje\/ noun

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

corpus weight

What this shows « millier » 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).

millier vs minier
71% similar
millier vs Müller
57% similar
millier vs million
71% similar

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

Key facts for millier
PropertyValue
Headwordmillier
LanguageFrench
Part of speechNoun
IPA\mi.lje\
Letters7
Frequency rank#10,906
Misspellings tracked8
Confusable pairs13
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « millier »

De gauche à droite: le peu qui porte la parole quotidienne, puis la longue queue quasi invisible.millierse place ici:

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

L'axe est logarithmique: chaque tic marque environ dix fois moins de fréquence. Dans la même bande de rareté figurent « milice » (#10,905), « mixtes » (#10,907), « menaçant » (#10,904). Parmi 5,038 lemmes en « M », « millier » est au #10,906. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

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

  1. 1
    Nom de nombre collectif exprimant la quantité de mille.
  2. 2
    Autrefois, quantité de certaines matières, pesant mille livres.
  3. 3
    Nombre indéfini, mais considérable.

Recorded use

Wiktionary examples

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

  1. 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.
  2. 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.

imllier2milier1mililer2milleir2millierr1millire2mlilier2mmillier1
Edit distance from "millier"

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 "millier"?
"millier" is spelled M-I-L-L-I-E-R. The IPA pronunciation is \mi.lje\.
What does "millier" mean?
As a noun, "millier" means: Nom de nombre collectif exprimant la quantité de mille.
What words are commonly confused with "millier"?
"millier" is commonly confused with "minier", "Müller", "million". These words look or sound similar but have different meanings. PlainSpell provides detailed comparisons for each pair.
How do you pronounce "millier"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "millier" is \mi.lje\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "millier" come from?
"millier" 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 "millier", not the corpus desk frequency band.

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).

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

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list