million
\mi.ljɔ̃\
The verdict
“million” has 8 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #2,432. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #2,432
- frequency rank, French
- 5,038
- “M” headwords
- 8
- tracked misspellings
- 8
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Nom de nombre cardinal. Mille fois mille, 10⁶.
Corpus desk
Index FR-million · million · French
million · rank #2,432 · 8 variants · 8 confusables
- FREQ-COMMON #2,432
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 8 pairs
- VAR-MID 8 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,038
- PHOTO-FINISH manuel
Nearest frequency peer: manuel (-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 « million »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- libération
libération
97,572 corpus weight
- mairie
mairie
97,571 corpus weight
- manuel
manuel
97,570 corpus weight
- million
million
97,569 corpus weight
- ministres
ministres
97,568 corpus weight
- MR
MR
97,567 corpus weight
What this shows « million » 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 | million |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \mi.ljɔ̃\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #2,432 |
| Misspellings tracked | 8 |
| Confusable pairs | 8 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « million »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 8 spelling variants around million (IPA \mi.ljɔ̃\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #2,432 among 5,038 “M” headwords. Wiktionary lists 4 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 8 likely wrong-spelling variants for million, with forms such as "imllion", "mililon", and "milion". 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 8 confusable-pair relationships, "milon", "Milton", "Millot", 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 easiest explained by how it's pronounced rather than where it came from. The correct French form is million, spelled M-I-L-L-I-O-N.
Definition
- 1Nom de nombre cardinal. Mille fois mille, 10⁶.
- 2Un million de francs, et à présent, un million d’euros.
- 3Grande richesse.
- 4Un nombre indéfini, mais considérable.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how million appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Riccioli, depuis 1660, avait accordé à cette partie du monde 500 millions d’habitans, nombre qui, par la suite, a été presque constamment adopté dans beaucoup d’ouvrages.
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.
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- imllion
- mililon
- milion
- millino
- millionn
- milloin
- mlilion
- mmillion
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of million - 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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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).