mite
\mit\
The verdict
“mite” is an uncommon French word, ranked #58,763 in French word frequency and used as a noun.
- #58,763
- frequency rank, French
- 4
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - Nom vernaculaire d’insecte ravageur de l’ordre des lépidoptères (papillons) regroupant les teignes (ex: mites des vêtements) et les pyrales ou mites alimentaires.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | mite |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \mit\ |
| Letters | 4 |
| Frequency rank | #58,763 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “mite” sits in French frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for mite is 4 letters long, classified as a noun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \mit\. Corpus data places it at rank #58,763 in overall French word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it. Wiktionary records 2 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
The misspelling generator found no plausible variants for mite, since its letter sequence doesn't invite the usual edit-distance slips. Our dataset records no confusable match here, since no other headword is close enough in sound or shape to pair with it.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so its spelling is easiest explained by how it's pronounced rather than where it came from. The correct French form is mite, spelled M-I-T-E.
Definition
- 1Nom vernaculaire d’insecte ravageur de l’ordre des lépidoptères (papillons) regroupant les teignes (ex: mites des vêtements) et les pyrales ou mites alimentaires.
- 2Nom vulgaire donné à une espèce d’acarien de la classe des arachnides que l’on retrouve sur certaines denrées alimentaires.
This word in other languages
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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Using “mite”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct French spelling is M-I-T-E - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
- Say it as \mit\ (IPA); tap the speaker on the pronunciation badge to hear it where audio exists.
- Browse more French words and confusable pairs in the same reference. French words
Data Source
Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Word ordering uses an open word-frequency list; misspelling variants are generated by edit-distance from the correct headword.