Mills

name

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The verdict

“Mills” has 6 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #21,084. The variants make it a useful spelling check.

#21,084
frequency rank, French
5,038
“M” headwords
6
tracked misspellings
20
confusable pairs

According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Nom de famille.

Corpus desk

Index FR-mills · Mills · French

Mills · rank #21,084 · 6 variants · 20 confusables

  • FREQ-MID #21,084
  • LEN-MID 5 letters
  • VOW-1 1 vowel
  • CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
  • VAR-MID 6 variants
  • BOOK-DENSE 5,038
  • PHOTO-FINISH militairement

Nearest frequency peer: militairement (-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 « Mills »

Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin

corpus weight

What this shows « Mills » 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).

Mills vs mis
40% similar
Mills vs mls
40% similar
Mills vs miss
40% similar

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

Key facts for Mills
PropertyValue
HeadwordMills
LanguageFrench
Part of speechProper noun
Letters5
Frequency rank#21,084
Misspellings tracked6
Confusable pairs20
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « Mills »

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

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

L'échelle est logarithmique (chaque tic ≈ 10× plus rare). Dans la même bande de rareté figurent « militairement » (#21,083), « mobilisent » (#21,085), « microscope » (#21,082). Parmi 5,038 lemmes en « M », « Mills » est au #21,084. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

A misspelling magnet

The generator records 6 spelling variants around Mills, aproper noun. Corpus frequency is #21,084 among 5,038 “M” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Nom de famille.".

Our generated misspelling index lists 6 likely wrong-spelling variants for Mills, with forms such as "imlls", "millss", and "mils". 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 20 confusable-pair relationships, "mis", "mls", "miss", and more, a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.

Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, so any spelling logic here comes from how the word's sounds map to letters, not a documented origin story. The correct French form is Mills, spelled M-I-L-L-S.

Definition

  1. 1
    Nom de famille.

Recorded use

Wiktionary example

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

  1. C’est le DJ des DJ, estime Jeff Mills.

Common misspellings

Also misspelled as:

  • imlls
  • millss
  • mils
  • milsl
  • mlils
  • mmills

Misspelling Pattern Breakdown

How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of Mills - 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.

imlls2millss1mils1milsl2mlils2mmills1
Edit distance from "Mills"

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 "Mills"?
"Mills" is spelled M-I-L-L-S.
What does "Mills" mean?
As a proper noun, "Mills" means: Nom de famille.
What words are commonly confused with "Mills"?
"Mills" is commonly confused with "mis", "mls", "miss". These words look or sound similar but have different meanings. PlainSpell provides detailed comparisons for each pair.
What language does "Mills" come from?
"Mills" is a French word. PlainSpell's reference spans five languages -- English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, and German -- with definitions, pronunciations, and spelling data for each.
Is PlainSpell free to use?
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Similar French words by spelling shape

Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "Mills", not the corpus desk frequency band.

Same letter count

Frequency-ranked French headwords with 5 letters (nearest by frequency rank).

munie#21,093nouer#21,096Luigi#21,069poupe#21,118

Similar misspelling depth

Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (6 here; floor ≥5).

palm6 variantsJoanna6 variantsRobbie6 variantsfidel6 variants

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

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list