Maillard

\ma.jaʁ\

/\ma.jaʁ\/ name

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The verdict

“Maillard” has 10 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #31,127. The variants make it a useful spelling check.

#31,127
frequency rank, French
5,038
“M” headwords
10
tracked misspellings
2
confusable pairs

According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Nom de famille porté, entre autres, par Jean Maillard.

Corpus desk

Index FR-maillard · Maillard · French

Maillard · rank #31,127 · 10 variants · 2 confusables

  • FREQ-MID #31,127
  • LEN-LONG 8 letters
  • VOW-3 3 vowels
  • CONFUS-LOW 2 pairs
  • VAR-MID 10 variants
  • BOOK-DENSE 5,038
  • PHOTO-FINISH maghrébin

Nearest frequency peer: maghrébin (-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.

Pairs de rang près de l'aimant d'erreurs « Maillard »

Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin

corpus weight

What this shows « Maillard » siège parmi ces pairs FrequencyWords; la profondeur des fautes est suivie à part dans le graphique d'édition.

Source FrequencyWords open word-frequency list As of September 3, 2026

Visual similarity to commonly confused words

How many letter changes separate each confused pair (Levenshtein distance, normalized).

Maillard vs milliard
63% similar
Maillard vs maillage
63% similar

Source: PlainSpell confusable corpus (Wiktionary, CC BY-SA).

Key facts for Maillard
PropertyValue
HeadwordMaillard
LanguageFrench
Part of speechProper noun
IPA\ma.jaʁ\
Letters8
Frequency rank#31,127
Misspellings tracked10
Confusable pairs2
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « Maillard »

De gauche à droite: le peu qui porte la parole quotidienne, puis la longue queue quasi invisible.Maillardse place ici:

#1#100#1K#10K#100K
← used constantlyrarely used →

L'axe est logarithmique: chaque tic marque environ dix fois moins de fréquence. Dans la même bande de rareté figurent « maghrébin » (#31,126), « maker » (#31,128), « malentendus » (#31,129). Parmi 5,038 lemmes en « M », « Maillard » est au #31,127. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

A misspelling magnet

The generator records 10 spelling variants around Maillard (IPA \ma.jaʁ\), aproper noun. Corpus frequency is #31,127 among 5,038 “M” headwords. Dominant gloss: "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

  1. 1
    Nom de famille porté, entre autres, par Jean Maillard.

Recorded use

Wiktionary examples

These source excerpts show how Maillard appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.

  1. Coup de Jean Maillard, action par laquelle on nuit à quelqu'un, on le dessert ; par allusion au bourgeois Jean Maillard, qui tua Marcel, prévôt de Paris, au moment où il allait ouvrir une des portes de cette ville.
  2. Là-dessus, le Maillard sortit un litre de sa musette et lampa une forte gorgée de calva, pour se redonner du courage.

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.

amillard2mailalrd2mailard1mailladr2maillardd1maillarrd1maillrad2malilard2
Edit distance from "Maillard"

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.

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "Maillard"?
"Maillard" is spelled M-A-I-L-L-A-R-D. The IPA pronunciation is \ma.jaʁ\.
What does "Maillard" mean?
As a proper noun, "Maillard" means: Nom de famille porté, entre autres, par Jean Maillard.
What words are commonly confused with "Maillard"?
"Maillard" is commonly confused with "milliard", "maillage". These words look or sound similar but have different meanings. PlainSpell provides detailed comparisons for each pair.
How do you pronounce "Maillard"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "Maillard" is \ma.jaʁ\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "Maillard" come from?
"Maillard" is a French word. PlainSpell's reference spans five languages -- English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, and German -- with definitions, pronunciations, and spelling data for each.
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Similar French words by spelling shape

Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "Maillard", not the corpus desk frequency band.

Same letter count

Frequency-ranked French headwords with 8 letters (nearest by frequency rank).

ludiques#31,124loufoque#31,122libertin#31,120Motorola#31,142

Similar misspelling depth

Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (10 here; floor ≥5).

mangeur10 variantslatinos10 variantslatence10 variantsnitrate10 variants

Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org) Structured Wiktionary extract

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list