mailing
\mɛ.liŋ\
The verdict
“mailing” is uncommon French (frequency #58,741 among 5,038 “M” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #58,741
- frequency rank, French
- 5,038
- “M” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Prospection, démarchage ou vente par voie postale ou électronique.
Corpus desk
Index FR-mailing · mailing · French
mailing · rank #58,741 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #58,741
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,038
- PHOTO-FINISH mags
Nearest frequency peer: mags (-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.
Rangs de longue queue près de « mailing »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- loot
loot
41,265 corpus weight
- lyse
lyse
41,263 corpus weight
- macronistes
macronistes
41,262 corpus weight
- mags
mags
41,261 corpus weight
- mailing
mailing
41,260 corpus weight
- Maitland
Maitland
41,259 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « mailing » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | mailing |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \mɛ.liŋ\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #58,741 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « mailing » en français
Rare enough to double-check
mailing is uncommon French at frequency #58,741 among 5,038 “M” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \mɛ.liŋ\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Prospection, démarchage ou vente par voie postale ou électronique.".
We couldn't generate a plausible misspelling set for mailing, typically a sign the spelling maps closely to how the word sounds. This headword has no recorded confusable partner, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
This entry's etymology isn't recorded, so its spelling is best explained by sound-to-letter mapping rather than etymology. The correct French form is mailing, spelled M-A-I-L-I-N-G.
Definition
- 1Prospection, démarchage ou vente par voie postale ou électronique.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how mailing appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Il part quand le mailing pour la prochaine campagne ?
L’écrit avec le mailing et l’e-mailing, l’oral avec le phoning : deux vecteurs de communication complémentaires au service de la prospection.
Synonyms
This word in other languages
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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Same letter count
Frequency-ranked French headwords with 7 letters (nearest by frequency rank).