Mireille
\mi.ʁɛj\
The verdict
“Mireille” has 9 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #16,946. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #16,946
- frequency rank, French
- 5,038
- “M” headwords
- 9
- tracked misspellings
- 5
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Prénom féminin.
Corpus desk
Index FR-mireille · Mireille · French
Mireille · rank #16,946 · 9 variants · 5 confusables
- FREQ-MID #16,946
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 5 pairs
- VAR-MID 9 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,038
- PHOTO-FINISH Mick
Nearest frequency peer: Mick (-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 « Mireille »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- marquage
marquage
83,058 corpus weight
- merdier
merdier
83,057 corpus weight
- Mick
Mick
83,056 corpus weight
- Mireille
Mireille
83,055 corpus weight
- modélisation
modélisation
83,054 corpus weight
- mona
mona
83,053 corpus weight
What this shows « Mireille » 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 | Mireille |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| IPA | \mi.ʁɛj\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #16,946 |
| Misspellings tracked | 9 |
| Confusable pairs | 5 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « Mireille »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 9 spelling variants around Mireille (IPA \mi.ʁɛj\), aproper noun. Corpus frequency is #16,946 among 5,038 “M” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Prénom féminin.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 9 likely wrong-spelling variants for Mireille, with forms such as "imreille", "mierille", and "mireile". Every one of these variants traces to a single-character edit -- an added or dropped letter, a swapped consonant, or a vowel swap -- the kind of slip a spell-checker is built to catch. It also participates in 5 confusable-pair relationships, "muraille", "myrtille", "mitraille", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
This entry's etymology isn't recorded, so its spelling is easiest explained by how it's pronounced rather than where it came from. The correct French form is Mireille, spelled M-I-R-E-I-L-L-E.
Definition
- 1Prénom féminin.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how Mireille appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Je ne comprenais pas d’ailleurs qu’aucune ne restât longtemps chez nous et j’éprouvais toujours de la peine quand au retour d’une promenade j’apprenais que Louise, Solange ou Mireille était partie dans l’après-midi.
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- imreille
- mierille
- mireile
- mireilel
- mirelile
- mirielle
- mirreille
- mmireille
- mrieille
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of Mireille - 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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Similar French words by spelling shape
Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "Mireille", not the corpus desk frequency band.
Same letter count
Frequency-ranked French headwords with 8 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (9 here; floor ≥5).