mis
\mi\
The verdict
“mis” sits in 20 confusable pairs (corpus #339) as a verb. The look-alike neighbours are the real trap.
- #339
- frequency rank, French
- 5,038
- “M” headwords
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Participe passé masculin de mettre.
Corpus desk
Index FR-mis · mis · French
mis · rank #339 · 0 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-CORE #339
- LEN-MID 3 letters
- VOW-1 1 vowel
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,038
- PHOTO-FINISH jeune
Nearest frequency peer: jeune (-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.
Voisins de fréquence du confusable « mis »
Pairs de poids proche dans le corpus, séparés des confusables ci-dessous
- exemple
exemple
99,665 corpus weight
- fils
fils
99,664 corpus weight
- jeune
jeune
99,663 corpus weight
- mis
mis
99,662 corpus weight
- système
système
99,661 corpus weight
- air
air
99,660 corpus weight
What this shows Les barres placent « mis » face aux lemmes français les plus proches par rang, pas un reprint du bureau des confusables.
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 | mis |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \mi\ |
| Letters | 3 |
| Frequency rank | #339 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Rang de corpus près des confusables de « mis »
Easy to mix with look-alikes
The spelling risk for mis is neighbouring look-alikes ("mm", "MR", …), not just typos; it is averb pronounced \mi\. Frequency #339 among 5,038 “M” headwords. 3 recorded senses keep meaning in play.
mis has no tracked misspelling variants, typically a sign the spelling maps closely to how the word sounds. It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "mm", "MR", "my", and more, a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.
This entry carries no recorded etymology, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct French form is mis, spelled M-I-S.
Definition
- 1Participe passé masculin de mettre.
- 2Première personne du singulier du passé simple de mettre.
- 3Deuxième personne du singulier du passé simple de mettre.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how mis appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Cette guerre qui fut un affrontement entre « le germanisme et l’esprit universel conçu par la France », a mis en jeu non pas la victoire d’une nation sur une autre, mais la civilisation elle-même.
Et évidemment, ces petits cons d’élèves n’ayant eu aucune envie de se révolter, elle avait fait un bond de deux mètres lorsque le réveil s’était mis à greluchonner connement sur la petite table encombrée de nuit tiède.
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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