mit
\mi\
The verdict
“mit” sits in 20 confusable pairs (corpus #3,474) as a verb. The look-alike neighbours are the real trap.
- #3,474
- frequency rank, French
- 5,038
- “M” headwords
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Troisième personne du singulier du passé simple de mettre.
Corpus desk
Index FR-mit · mit · French
mit · rank #3,474 · 0 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-COMMON #3,474
- LEN-MID 3 letters
- VOW-1 1 vowel
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,038
- PHOTO-FINISH mystère
Nearest frequency peer: mystère (+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 « mit »
Pairs de poids proche dans le corpus, séparés des confusables ci-dessous
- majeure
majeure
96,530 corpus weight
- Maria
Maria
96,529 corpus weight
- mit
mit
96,527 corpus weight
- mystère
mystère
96,526 corpus weight
- méchant
méchant
96,525 corpus weight
- nationales
nationales
96,524 corpus weight
What this shows Les barres placent « mit » 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 | mit |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \mi\ |
| Letters | 3 |
| Frequency rank | #3,474 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Rang de corpus près des confusables de « mit »
Easy to mix with look-alikes
The spelling risk for mit is neighbouring look-alikes ("mm", "MR", …), not just typos; it is averb pronounced \mi\. Frequency #3,474 among 5,038 “M” headwords. Gloss: "Troisième personne du singulier du passé simple de mettre.".
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for mit, 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.
No documented word history exists for this headword, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct French form is mit, spelled M-I-T.
Definition
- 1Troisième personne du singulier du passé simple de mettre.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how mit appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Il balbutia quelques mots, puis tira son couteau de sa poche, un eustache à manche de corne, coupa son pain par le milieu et en mit la moitié sur les genoux de la jeune mère, qui regarda étonnée ; mais il avait déjà tourné le coin de la rue.
Elle se mit à rire, mais forcément.
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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