maille
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.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | maille |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \mɑj\ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #18,248 |
| Misspellings tracked | 6 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
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
- 1Chacune des boucles que forment des fils croisés ou noués en un point et qui constituent un tissu plus ou moins lâche.
- 2Nœuds faits de corde, de fil, etc., dans les filets. Trame d’un filet.
- 3Ouverture que les nœuds d’un tricot ou d’un filet laissent entre eux.
- 4Ouverture pratiquée dans les lisses du métier à tisser, et qui sert à recevoir les fils de la chaîne.
- 5Élément d'une chaîne métallique, maillon.
- 6Marques, des taches qui paraissent sur les plumes du perdreau, lorsqu’il devient fort.
- 7Aspect 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.
- 8Fissure qui part du centre d'une pièce de bois et qui s'étend vers la périphérie
- 9Endroit marqué d’une petite tache, d’où sort le fruit, dans les melons et les concombres.
- 10La longueur du plus court cycle d’un graphe.
- 11Zone élémentaire délimitée par les lignes d’un canevas.
- 12Moyenne.
- 13Encore.
- 14Moitié 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"
Frequency rank: #18,248 in French
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Nearby French words
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