mise
French, noun
mise is spelled M-I-S-E (4 letters) and appears 209 times per million words in written French, the 392nd most frequent French word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Mise is a French feminine noun meaning “placement; (act of) putting” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is also a feminine singular of mis. With an accent, misé is a different word: “past participle of miser”. The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Action de mettre”.
What does mise mean in English?
noun
- 1
feminineplacement; (act of) putting
- 2
femininebet; wager, ante
- 3
feminineappearance; dress
verb
- 1
femininefeminine singular of mis
verb
- 1
first/third-person singular present indicative/subjunctive
- 2
second-person singular imperative
verb
- 1
past participle of miser
Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How French dictionaries define it
noun: 1. Action de mettre. 2. Ce que l’on met, soit au jeu, soit dans une affaire. 3. Manière de se mettre, de se vêtir. 4. Sorte de grand moule spécial pour l'égouttage et le moulage du savon.
noun: 1. Marquise.
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.
Forms of mise
- mises plural
- misée feminine
- misés masculine plural
- misées feminine plural
- Mⁱˢᵉ canonical
- Mⁱˢ masculine
- Mis masculine
- Mise.
Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
English words that translate to mise
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is mise in French?
mise appears 209 times per million words in written French.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).