Maillard
\ma.jaʁ\
The verdict
“Maillard” is a moderately-common French word, ranked #31,127 in French word frequency and used as a proper noun.
- #31,127
- frequency rank, French
- 8
- letters
- 10
- tracked misspellings
- 2
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - Nom de famille porté, entre autres, par Jean Maillard.
Visual similarity to commonly confused words
How many letter changes separate each confused pair (Levenshtein distance, normalized).
Source: PlainSpell confusable corpus (Wiktionary, CC BY-SA).
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Maillard |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| IPA | \ma.jaʁ\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #31,127 |
| Misspellings tracked | 10 |
| Confusable pairs | 2 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “Maillard” sits in French frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for Maillard is 8 letters long, classified as a proper noun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \ma.jaʁ\. Corpus data places it at rank #31,127 in overall French word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it. The dominant gloss from Wiktionary reads: "Nom de famille porté, entre autres, par Jean Maillard.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 10 likely wrong-spelling variants for Maillard, with forms such as "amillard", "mailalrd", and "mailard". Every one of these variants traces to a single-character edit -- an added or dropped letter, a swapped consonant, or a vowel swap -- the kind of slip a spell-checker is built to catch. It also participates in 2 confusable-pair relationships, "milliard", "maillage", where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
Our source data has no etymology on file for this entry, so its spelling is easiest explained by how it's pronounced rather than where it came from. The correct French form is Maillard, spelled M-A-I-L-L-A-R-D.
Definition
- 1Nom de famille porté, entre autres, par Jean Maillard.
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: amillard,mailalrd,mailard,mailladr,maillardd,maillarrd,maillrad,malilard,miallard,mmaillard
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of Maillard - measured in single-character edits (insert, delete, or substitute a letter). Larger bars are easier to catch; one-edit slips are the sneakiest.
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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Using “Maillard”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct French spelling is M-A-I-L-L-A-R-D - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
- Say it as \ma.jaʁ\ (IPA); tap the speaker on the pronunciation badge to hear it where audio exists.
- Don't mix it up with “milliard” - see the side-by-side comparison. Maillard vs milliard
- Browse more French words and confusable pairs in the same reference. French words
Data Source
Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Word ordering uses an open word-frequency list; misspelling variants are generated by edit-distance from the correct headword.