millimètres
\mi.li.mɛtʁ\
The verdict
“millimètres” has 16 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #14,738. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #14,738
- frequency rank, French
- 5,038
- “M” headwords
- 16
- tracked misspellings
- 2
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Pluriel de millimètre.
Corpus desk
Index FR-millimetres · millimètres · French
millimètres · rank #14,738 · 16 variants · 2 confusables
- FREQ-MID #14,738
- LEN-MEGA 11 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-LOW 2 pairs
- VAR-HIGH 16 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,038
- PHOTO-FINISH miettes
Nearest frequency peer: miettes (-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 « millimètres »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- mercenaires
mercenaires
85,266 corpus weight
- meurtrière
meurtrière
85,265 corpus weight
- miettes
miettes
85,264 corpus weight
- millimètres
millimètres
85,263 corpus weight
- mixité
mixité
85,262 corpus weight
- modifiant
modifiant
85,261 corpus weight
What this shows « millimètres » 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 | millimètres |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \mi.li.mɛtʁ\ |
| Letters | 11 |
| Frequency rank | #14,738 |
| Misspellings tracked | 16 |
| Confusable pairs | 2 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « millimètres »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 16 spelling variants around millimètres (IPA \mi.li.mɛtʁ\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #14,738 among 5,038 “M” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Pluriel de millimètre.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 16 likely wrong-spelling variants for millimètres, with forms such as "imllimètres", "mililmètres", and "milimètres". 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 2 confusable-pair relationships, "mm", "millimètre", where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
This entry carries no recorded etymology, so its spelling pattern is best understood through pronunciation rather than a traceable origin. The correct French form is millimètres, spelled M-I-L-L-I-M-È-T-R-E-S.
Definition
- 1Pluriel de millimètre.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how millimètres appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Quelques millimètres pesant quelques microgrammes de l’essence même de la vie. Obtenus après avoir lysé les globules blancs et séparé par centrifugation le précieux ADN du reste du matériel cellulaire.
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- imllimètres
- mililmètres
- milimètres
- millimetres
- millimmètres
- millimtères
- millimèrtes
- millimèters
- millimètress
- millimètrres
- millimètrse
- millimèttres
- millièmtres
- millmiètres
- mlilimètres
- mmillimètres
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of millimètres - 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 11 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (16 here; floor ≥5).