mirliton
\miʁ.li.tɔ̃\
The verdict
“mirliton” is outside the top-ranked French vocabulary, used as a noun - the kind of word writers most often double-check.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency French
- 8
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - Membrane vibrante recouvrant un trou et mise en branle par un souffle ou une vibration sonore, produisant un son nasillard. → voir kazoo
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | mirliton |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \miʁ.li.tɔ̃\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “mirliton” sits in French frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for mirliton is 8 letters long, classified as a noun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \miʁ.li.tɔ̃\. It sits outside the most-frequent rank tiers, which is often why uncommon words generate more spelling variants per reader. Wiktionary records 9 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
No misspelling variants are generated for mirliton in our index, suggesting the orthography follows predictable French patterns. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. For readers arriving here from a spelling check, the authoritative guidance is: the correct French form is mirliton, spelled M-I-R-L-I-T-O-N, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Membrane vibrante recouvrant un trou et mise en branle par un souffle ou une vibration sonore, produisant un son nasillard. → voir kazoo
- 2Sorte de flûte très simple, formée d’un roseau bouché par les deux bouts avec une pelure d’oignon, un morceau de baudruche, du papier etc. En chantonnant dans le tube, on fait vibrer cette membrane qui transforme la voix en sons nasillards.
- 3Accessoire de cotillon consistant en un sifflet encastré dans un tube de carton décoré dans lequel on souffle et au bout duquel se déroule alors d’un coup et avec un couinement une partie supplémentaire; également appelé langue de belle-mère.
- 4Feuilleté à la crème saupoudré de sucre, de forme allongée et originaire de Rouen.
- 5Coiffure militaire rigide et conique en feutre, avec une bande de tissu roulée autour en spirale, légèrement différente du shako, portée autrefois par certaines unités de hussards.
- 6Panneau de signalisation ferroviaire, utilisé à la SNCF. Il signale que l’on approche d’un panneau. Il doit son nom à son aspect.
- 7Ancienne coiffure en vogue au XVIII^(ème) siècle, où les cheveux courts étaient enroulés autours de la tête.
- 8Nom commun donné au louis d’or de 1723.
- 9Nom vernaculaire de la chayote.
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- The one correct French spelling is M-I-R-L-I-T-O-N - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
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