milliseconde
\mi.li.sə.ɡɔ̃d\
The verdict
“milliseconde” is uncommon French (frequency #97,166 among 5,038 “M” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #97,166
- frequency rank, French
- 5,038
- “M” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Unité de mesure de temps du Système international (SI), valant 10⁻³ seconde, et dont le symbole est ms.
Corpus desk
Index FR-milliseconde · milliseconde · French
milliseconde · rank #97,166 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #97,166
- LEN-MEGA 12 letters
- VOW-5 5 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,038
- PHOTO-FINISH milliaire
Nearest frequency peer: milliaire (-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.
Frequency neighbourhood for “milliseconde”
Lower corpus rank = more everyday usage (inverted bar length for readability)
- militarisé
militarisé
2,838 corpus weight
- millette
millette
2,837 corpus weight
- milliaire
milliaire
2,836 corpus weight
- milliseconde
milliseconde
2,835 corpus weight
- mimo
mimo
2,834 corpus weight
- minant
minant
2,833 corpus weight
What this shows Bars show where “milliseconde” sits against the nearest ranked French headwords in the FrequencyWords band, not a reprint of letter-browse containment.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | milliseconde |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \mi.li.sə.ɡɔ̃d\ |
| Letters | 12 |
| Frequency rank | #97,166 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Où “milliseconde” se place dans la fréquence du français
Rare enough to double-check
milliseconde is uncommon French at frequency #97,166 among 5,038 “M” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \mi.li.sə.ɡɔ̃d\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Unité de mesure de temps du Système international (SI), valant 10⁻³ seconde, et dont le symbole est ms.".
We couldn't generate a plausible misspelling set for milliseconde, a straightforward case of a spelling with little room for common typos. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, suggesting its spelling stands apart enough that readers rarely confuse it with something else.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, so its spelling pattern is best understood through pronunciation rather than a traceable origin. The correct French form is milliseconde, spelled M-I-L-L-I-S-E-C-O-N-D-E.
Definition
- 1Unité de mesure de temps du Système international (SI), valant 10⁻³ seconde, et dont le symbole est ms.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how milliseconde appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Il y a mille millisecondes dans une seconde.
Cette technique permet de conserver toute la précision de la résolution temporelle de l’EEG en suivant l’activité cérébrale milliseconde par milliseconde.
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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