miteux
\mi.tø\
The verdict
“miteux” has 8 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #44,048. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #44,048
- frequency rank, French
- 5,038
- “M” headwords
- 8
- tracked misspellings
- 7
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Qui a l’apparence misérable.
Corpus desk
Index FR-miteux · miteux · French
miteux · rank #44,048 · 8 variants · 7 confusables
- FREQ-MID #44,048
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 7 pairs
- VAR-MID 8 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,038
- PHOTO-FINISH Millie
Nearest frequency peer: Millie (-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.
Pairs de rang près de l'aimant d'erreurs « miteux »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- massacrent
massacrent
55,957 corpus weight
- mastic
mastic
55,956 corpus weight
- Millie
Millie
55,954 corpus weight
- miteux
miteux
55,953 corpus weight
- momentum
momentum
55,951 corpus weight
- monogramme
monogramme
55,950 corpus weight
What this shows « miteux » siège parmi ces pairs FrequencyWords; la profondeur des fautes est suivie à part dans le graphique d'édition.
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 | miteux |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | \mi.tø\ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #44,048 |
| Misspellings tracked | 8 |
| Confusable pairs | 7 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « miteux »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 8 spelling variants around miteux (IPA \mi.tø\), anadjective. Corpus frequency is #44,048 among 5,038 “M” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Qui a l’apparence misérable.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 8 likely wrong-spelling variants for miteux, with forms such as "imteux", "mietux", and "miteuxx". Every one of these variants traces to a single-character edit -- an added or dropped letter, a swapped consonant, or a vowel swap -- the kind of slip a spell-checker is built to catch. It also participates in 7 confusable-pair relationships, "moteur", "mixeur", "mieux", and more, since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, so its spelling pattern is best understood through pronunciation rather than a traceable origin. The correct French form is miteux, spelled M-I-T-E-U-X.
Definition
- 1Qui a l’apparence misérable.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how miteux appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
— Tâche à présent, si qu'tu écris des articles sur ici, d'pas oublier d'marquer dans ton canard qu'un bal au jour d'aujourd'hui n'est plus miteux comme autrefois. Y a d'la lumière. C'est propre.
Je crains que cette théorie n’apparaisse insuffisante et, pour tout dire, miteuse aux observateurs sérieux.
Synonyms
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- imteux
- mietux
- miteuxx
- mitexu
- mitteux
- mituex
- mmiteux
- mtieux
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of miteux - measured in single-character edits (insert, delete, or substitute a letter). Larger bars are easier to catch; one-edit slips are the sneakiest.
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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Similar French words by spelling shape
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Same letter count
Frequency-ranked French headwords with 6 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
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Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (8 here; floor ≥5).