millionième
\mil.jɔ.njɛm\
The verdict
“millionième” is uncommon French (frequency #54,106 among 5,038 “M” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #54,106
- frequency rank, French
- 5,038
- “M” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Élément ordinal, correspondant au cardinal million.
Corpus desk
Index FR-millionieme · millionième · French
millionième · rank #54,106 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #54,106
- LEN-MEGA 11 letters
- VOW-6 6 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,038
- PHOTO-FINISH miche
Nearest frequency peer: miche (-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.
Rangs de longue queue près de « millionième »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- mettions
mettions
45,898 corpus weight
- meursault
meursault
45,897 corpus weight
- miche
miche
45,896 corpus weight
- millionième
millionième
45,895 corpus weight
- Minerva
Minerva
45,894 corpus weight
- missing
missing
45,893 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « millionième » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | millionième |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \mil.jɔ.njɛm\ |
| Letters | 11 |
| Frequency rank | #54,106 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « millionième » en français
Rare enough to double-check
millionième is uncommon French at frequency #54,106 among 5,038 “M” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \mil.jɔ.njɛm\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
No generated misspelling entries exist for millionième in our index, since its letter pattern doesn't lend itself to common typo substitutions. We don't track a confusable pairing for this entry, which typically means the spelling is too distinctive to be mistaken for another word.
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 millionième, spelled M-I-L-L-I-O-N-I-È-M-E.
Definition
- 1Élément ordinal, correspondant au cardinal million.
- 2Fraction obtenue en divisant un million de fois.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how millionième appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Le millionième précède le million unième et suit le neuf-cent-quatre-vingt-dix-neuf-mille-neuf-cent-quatre-vingt-dix-neuvième.
Le muon, c’est ainsi qu’il fut baptisé, vit plus ou moins longtemps, mais, en moyenne, sa longévité ne dépasse guère le millionième de seconde.
This word in other languages
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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