Which to use
“milice” and “milices” are a confusable French pair: similar on the page, but distinct in meaning, check the gloss before you choose.
- #10,905
- “milice” frequency rank
- #12,815
- “milices” frequency rank
- 23720
- confusion score
Side-by-Side Comparison
| Feature | milice | milices |
|---|---|---|
| Definition | Organisation militaire qui tient lieu d’armée permanente et où les citoyens enrôlés ne sont astreints qu’à des périodes d’exercice déterminées. | Pluriel de milice. |
Same sound, different letters: milice vs milices
Muted letters are shared; highlighted letters are the only spelling cue when pronunciation matches. Shared run: 6 letters. milice runs 6 letters (CVCVCV) against milices's 7 (CVCVCVC) - the length gap alone is often enough to separate them once you know to check it.
Ear matches; page differs - milice and milices
This is the hard kind. milice and milices are pronounced identically (\mi.lis\) and both work as anoun. Neither the ear nor the grammar will rescue you; only the meaning does, so the glosses below are the whole decision. They differ by 1 extra letter(s) - “milice” sits inside “milices”. Our composite confusion score for this pair is 23720, derived from the frequency rank of both members and their visual similarity.
milice is recorded at frequency rank #10,905, classified as anoun, pronounced \mi.lis\. milices is at rank #12,815, tagged as anoun, pronounced \mi.lis\.
Glosses for this pair are partially populated in our dataset, but the full side-by-side definitions above should still guide you to the right choice.
With a confusion score of 23720, this pair ranks #350,854 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs - a relatively easy-to-tell-apart pair.
Orthographic DNA of milice vs milices
Shared letters: ceilm. Private to "milice": -. Private to "milices": s.
"milice" · 6 letters · shape CVCVCV · "milices" · 7 letters · shape CVCVCVC
Known mistypes of this pair
Frequently Asked Questions
Do "milice" and "milices" mean the same thing in a sentence?
In ordinary French text, does "milice" or "milices" show up more?
What to do next
You've separated the homophone pair "milice" / "milices". Follow the links when you need the full entry or a neighbour that trips the same ear.
- Full dictionary entry for "milice" with definition, IPA, and generated misspellings. Word entry
- Full dictionary entry for "milices" - compare definitions side by side with the headword page. Word entry
- This pair ranks #350,854 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs in this corpus vintage. Corpus statistics
- "milice" and "milices" also get mixed up with nearby pairs, the highest-scored neighbour is "maline vs milice". Nearby pair
- Recorded mistypes exist for at least one side of this pair, useful when a spell-checker or OCR lands on the wrong form. See mistypes
Confusion rank #350,854 of 440,172 scored French pairs, corpus vintage 2026-09-03, not spelling advice.