maille

/\mɑj\/ noun

Letters

6 characters

Frequency Rank

#18,248

in French word usage

Misspellings

6

tracked variants

Confusables

20

similar word pairs

maille is aFrenchnoun. It means: Chacune des boucles que forment des fils croisés ou noués en un point et qui constituent un tissu plus ou moins lâche. Pronounced \mɑj\. Often confused with Mlle and mile.

Key facts for maille
PropertyValue
Headwordmaille
LanguageFrench
Part of speechNoun
IPA\mɑj\
Letters6
Frequency rank#18,248
Misspellings tracked6
Confusable pairs20
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Frequency rank visualization

Position of maille in French word frequency (lower rank = more common)

Source: Wordfreq corpus

Spelling & Dictionary Insight

The French entry for maille is 6 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \mɑj\. Corpus data places it at rank #18,248 in overall French word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it.Wiktionary records 14 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.

Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 6 documented wrong-spelling variants for maille, with forms such as "amille", "maile", and "mailel". Each variant represents a distinct typo pattern that appears often enough in corpora to be worth flagging, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution.It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "Mlle", "mile", "mill", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.

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 maille, spelled M-A-I-L-L-E, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.

Definition

  1. 1
    Chacune des boucles que forment des fils croisés ou noués en un point et qui constituent un tissu plus ou moins lâche.
  2. 2
    Nœuds faits de corde, de fil, etc., dans les filets. Trame d’un filet.
  3. 3
    Ouverture que les nœuds d’un tricot ou d’un filet laissent entre eux.
  4. 4
    Ouverture pratiquée dans les lisses du métier à tisser, et qui sert à recevoir les fils de la chaîne.
  5. 5
    Élément d'une chaîne métallique, maillon.
  6. 6
    Marques, des taches qui paraissent sur les plumes du perdreau, lorsqu’il devient fort.
  7. 7
    Aspect chatoyant de la face d’une planche dont la face principale est débitée suivant le plan radial de l’arbre, dans certaines essences de bois.
  8. 8
    Fissure qui part du centre d'une pièce de bois et qui s'étend vers la périphérie
  9. 9
    Endroit marqué d’une petite tache, d’où sort le fruit, dans les melons et les concombres.
  10. 10
    La longueur du plus court cycle d’un graphe.
  11. 11
    Zone élémentaire délimitée par les lignes d’un canevas.
  12. 12
    Moyenne.
  13. 13
    Encore.
  14. 14
    Moitié d’un denier, la plus petite pièce de monnaie : « Être sans sou ni maille. »

This word in other languages

Common misspellings

Also misspelled as: amille,maile,mailel,malile,mialle,mmaille

Misspelling Pattern Breakdown

Relative frequency of common misspelling types for maille

Misspelling Variants of "maille"

amille6maile5mailel6malile6mialle6mmaille7
Misspelling Variants of "maille"

Frequency rank: #18,248 in French

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "maille"?
"maille" is spelled M-A-I-L-L-E. The IPA pronunciation is \mɑj\.
What does "maille" mean?
As a noun, "maille" means: Chacune des boucles que forment des fils croisés ou noués en un point et qui constituent un tissu plus ou moins lâche.
What words are commonly confused with "maille"?
"maille" is commonly confused with "Mlle", "mile", "mill". These words look or sound similar but have different meanings. PlainSpell provides detailed comparisons for each pair.
How do you pronounce "maille"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "maille" is \mɑj\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "maille" come from?
"maille" is a French word. PlainSpell covers definitions, pronunciations, and spelling data across English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, and German.
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Data Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Frequency data from Wordfreq. Misspellings derived from Hunspell dictionaries.