maglia verde
\ˈmaʎ.ʎa ˈver.de\
The verdict
“maglia verde” is outside the top-ranked French vocabulary, used as a noun - the kind of word writers most often double-check.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency French
- 12
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) — Maillot vert, maillot porté par le ou la cycliste en tête du classement du sprint dans certaines courses par étapes, en particulier le Tour de France.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | maglia verde |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ˈmaʎ.ʎa ˈver.de\ |
| Letters | 12 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “maglia verde” sits in French frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for maglia verde is 12 letters long, classified as a noun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \ˈmaʎ.ʎa ˈver.de\. It sits outside the most-frequent rank tiers, which is often why uncommon words generate more spelling variants per reader. The dominant gloss from Wiktionary reads: "Maillot vert, maillot porté par le ou la cycliste en tête du classement du sprint dans certaines courses par étapes, en particulier le Tour de France.".
No misspelling variants are generated for maglia verde in our index, suggesting the orthography follows predictable French patterns. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. For readers arriving here from a spelling check, the authoritative guidance is: the correct French form is maglia verde, spelled M-A-G-L-I-A- -V-E-R-D-E, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Maillot vert, maillot porté par le ou la cycliste en tête du classement du sprint dans certaines courses par étapes, en particulier le Tour de France.
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.
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- The one correct French spelling is M-A-G-L-I-A- -V-E-R-D-E - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
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