Misha
\mi.ʃa\
The verdict
“Misha” is uncommon French (frequency #56,111 among 5,038 “M” headwords), classed as a proper noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #56,111
- frequency rank, French
- 5,038
- “M” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Michou.
Corpus desk
Index FR-misha · Misha · French
Misha · rank #56,111 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #56,111
- LEN-MID 5 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,038
- PHOTO-FINISH militariste
Nearest frequency peer: militariste (-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.
Rangs de longue queue près de « Misha »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- mildiou
mildiou
43,892 corpus weight
- militariste
militariste
43,891 corpus weight
- Misha
Misha
43,890 corpus weight
- Mississauga
Mississauga
43,889 corpus weight
- Mithra
Mithra
43,888 corpus weight
- modale
modale
43,887 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « Misha » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Misha |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| IPA | \mi.ʃa\ |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #56,111 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « Misha » en français
Rare enough to double-check
Misha is uncommon French at frequency #56,111 among 5,038 “M” headwords, classed as aproper noun, transcribed \mi.ʃa\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Michou.".
The misspelling generator found no plausible variants for Misha, suggesting the orthography follows predictable French patterns. This headword has no recorded confusable partner, which typically means the spelling is too distinctive to be mistaken for another word.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct French form is Misha, spelled M-I-S-H-A.
Definition
- 1Michou.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how Misha appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Misha Sydorenko.
Le Fonds culturel de l’Ermitage, présidé par Martine Boulart, a fait don à la Ville - à l’occasion de son neuvième prix qui s’est tenu au Palais du Luxembourg le 24 octobre dernier - d’une œuvre de l’artiste ukrainien Misha Sydorenko, un amoureux de Saint-Cloud.
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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