mle
The verdict
“mle” sits in 20 confusable pairs (corpus #43,557) as a noun. The look-alike neighbours are the real trap.
- #43,557
- frequency rank, French
- 5,038
- “M” headwords
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Abréviation de matricule.
Corpus desk
Index FR-mle · mle · French
mle · rank #43,557 · 0 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-MID #43,557
- LEN-MID 3 letters
- VOW-1 1 vowel
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,038
- PHOTO-FINISH modulable
Nearest frequency peer: modulable (+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 « mle »
Pairs de poids proche dans le corpus, séparés des confusables ci-dessous
- Meurice
Meurice
56,447 corpus weight
- microns
microns
56,446 corpus weight
- mle
mle
56,444 corpus weight
- modulable
modulable
56,443 corpus weight
- Mogadiscio
Mogadiscio
56,442 corpus weight
- moka
moka
56,441 corpus weight
What this shows Les barres placent « mle » 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 | mle |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| Letters | 3 |
| Frequency rank | #43,557 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Rang de corpus près des confusables de « mle »
Easy to mix with look-alikes
The spelling risk for mle is neighbouring look-alikes ("mm", "MR", …), not just typos; it is anoun. Frequency #43,557 among 5,038 “M” headwords. Gloss: "Abréviation de matricule.".
No generated misspelling entries exist for mle in our index, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. 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 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 mle, spelled M-L-E.
Definition
- 1Abréviation de matricule.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how mle appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Gernigant (François), mle 05435, soldat : brave soldat s'étant vaillamment comporté au feu dès le début de la campagne. Tombé glorieusement pour la France, le 16 novembre 1914, au bois de la Gruerie. Croix de guerre avec étoile de bronze.
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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Frequency-ranked French headwords with 3 letters (nearest by frequency rank).