misty

/\ˈmɪs.ti\/ adj

Letters

5 characters

Frequency Rank

#50,974

in French word usage

Misspellings

0

tracked variants

Confusables

0

similar word pairs

misty is anFrenchadj. It means: Embrumé. Pronounced \ˈmɪs.ti\.

Key facts for misty
PropertyValue
Headwordmisty
LanguageFrench
Part of speechAdj
IPA\ˈmɪs.ti\
Letters5
Frequency rank#50,974
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Frequency rank visualization

Position of misty in French word frequency (lower rank = more common)

Source: Wordfreq corpus

Spelling & Dictionary Insight

The French entry for misty is 5 letters long, classified as anadj, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \ˈmɪs.ti\. Corpus data places it at rank #50,974 in overall French word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it.The dominant gloss from Wiktionary reads: "Embrumé.".

No frequent misspelling variants are recorded for misty in our index, suggesting the orthography either follows predictable French patterns or the word is uncommon enough that typo corpora lack signal.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 misty, spelled M-I-S-T-Y, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.

Definition

  1. 1
    Embrumé.

Frequency rank: #50,974 in French

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "misty"?
"misty" is spelled M-I-S-T-Y. The IPA pronunciation is \ˈmɪs.ti\.
What does "misty" mean?
As an adj, "misty" means: Embrumé.
How do you pronounce "misty"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "misty" is \ˈmɪs.ti\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "misty" come from?
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Data Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Frequency data from Wordfreq. Misspellings derived from Hunspell dictionaries.