mils
French, noun\mil\
mils is spelled M-I-L-S (4 letters) and appears about once in every 10 million words in written French, the 102,288th most frequent French word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Mils is a French noun meaning “plural of mil” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Nom que les Persans modernes donnent aux exercices de gymnastique faits avec des espèces de massues”.
What does mils mean in English?
noun
- 1
plural of mil
Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How French dictionaries define it
noun: 1. Nom que les Persans modernes donnent aux exercices de gymnastique faits avec des espèces de massues.
The definition in the French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire), in French.
Source: French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire), dump of September 1, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org.
How do you pronounce mils?
- \mil\
Sources: English Wiktionary, French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
How common is mils in French?
mils appears about once in every 10 million words in written French.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).