cotte de mailles
\kɔt də mɑj\
The verdict
“cotte de mailles” is uncommon French (outside the top frequency list), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency French
- 16
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Survêtement armé flexible, de protection du corps du combattant, fait d'annelets rigides entrelacés.
Corpus desk
Index FR-cotte-de-mailles · cotte de mailles · French
cotte de mailles · unranked · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-UNRANKED Unranked
- LEN-MEGA 16 letters
- VOW-6 6 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-THIN "C" thin
- PHOTO-UNK Peer pending
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.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | cotte de mailles |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \kɔt də mɑj\ |
| Letters | 16 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « cotte de mailles » en français
Rare enough to double-check
cotte de mailles is uncommon French outside the top frequency list, classed as anoun, transcribed \kɔt də mɑj\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Survêtement armé flexible, de protection du corps du combattant, fait d'annelets rigides entrelacés.".
We couldn't generate a plausible misspelling set for cotte de mailles, since its letter sequence doesn't invite the usual edit-distance slips. This entry stands alone in our confusable dataset, which typically means the spelling is too distinctive to be mistaken for another word.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, so any spelling logic here comes from how the word's sounds map to letters, not a documented origin story. The correct French form is cotte de mailles, spelled C-O-T-T-E- -D-E- -M-A-I-L-L-E-S.
Definition
- 1Survêtement armé flexible, de protection du corps du combattant, fait d'annelets rigides entrelacés.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how cotte de mailles appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Les Gaulois inventent pour le cavalier, certainement au IIIᵉ av. J.-C., la cotte de mailles.
[…] ; la seule ouverture qu’il eût, à l’extrémité supérieure, était juste assez large pour laisser passer la tête ; donc, on peut en déduire qu’on le passait comme on passe aujourd’hui une chemise, et comme on passait autrefois une cotte de mailles, c’est-à-dire par-dessus la tête et les épaules ; […].
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Definitions, pronunciation, and etymology for this entry are drawn from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org structured extract (CC BY-SA). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.