Which to use
“milité” is a verb and “minute” is a noun - they look or sound alike but fill different roles in a sentence.
- #36,958
- “milité” frequency rank
- #1,778
- “minute” frequency rank
- 38736
- confusion score
Side-by-Side Comparison
| Feature | milité | minute |
|---|---|---|
| Definition | Participe passé masculin singulier de militer. | Unité de mesure de temps, compatible avec le Système international, et qui compte soixante secondes. Son symbole est min. |
Where the eye mixes milité and minute
Muted = shared; highlighted = the visual trap. They share 3 letters in sequence. milité and minute follow the identical consonant-vowel pattern (CVCVCV). Same shape at a glance is often the real trap, independent of shared letters.
Look-alike desk: milité vs minute
These two trip readers on the page rather than in the ear: milité is \mi.li.te\ while minute is \mi.nyt\. Spoken aloud the problem disappears. In writing it persists, because they share most of their letters but differ in 3 positions, and the parts of speech differ too (verb vs noun), which is usually the fastest check. Our composite confusion score for this pair is 38736, derived from the frequency rank of both members and their visual similarity.
milité is recorded at frequency rank #36,958, classified as averb, pronounced \mi.li.te\. minute is at rank #1,778, tagged as anoun, pronounced \mi.nyt\.
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 38736, this pair ranks #253,177 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs - roughly mid-pack for confusability.
Orthographic DNA of milité vs minute
Shared letters: imt. Private to "milité": lé. Private to "minute": enu.
"milité" · 6 letters · shape CVCVCV · "minute" · 6 letters · shape CVCVCV
Known mistypes of this pair
- minute ← imnute · minnute · mintue · minuet · minutte · miunte · mminute · mniute
Frequently Asked Questions
Is swapping "milité" for "minute" ever safe?
Frequency check: "milité" vs "minute" - which ranks higher?
What to do next
Eye-level mix-up between "milité" and "minute" is sorted above. Next: full entries or other pairs that share a letter shape.
- Full dictionary entry for "milité" with definition, IPA, and generated misspellings. Word entry
- Full dictionary entry for "minute" - compare definitions side by side with the headword page. Word entry
- This pair ranks #253,177 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs in this corpus vintage. Corpus statistics
- "milité" and "minute" also get mixed up with nearby pairs, the highest-scored neighbour is "maline vs milité". 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 #253,177 of 440,172 scored French pairs, corpus vintage 2026-09-03, not spelling advice.