mailler
French, verb/ma.je/
mailler is spelled M-A-I-L-L-E-R (7 letters) and appears about once in every 14 million words in written French, the 122,418th most frequent French word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Mailler is a French verb meaning “to mesh” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Faire un filet au moyen de mailles”.
What does mailler mean in English?
verb
- 1
to mesh
- 2
slangto work, to pursue an activity for payment
Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How French dictionaries define it
verb: 1. Faire un filet au moyen de mailles. 2. Relier des chaînes entre elles à l’aide de manilles. 3. Se tacher avant de bourgeonner. 4. ou Se prendre aux mailles du filet, en parlant des poissons.
verb: 1. Taper quelque chose avec un maillet.
The definition in the French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire), in French.
Source: French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire), dump of September 1, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org.
Forms of mailler
- avoir + past participle infinitive multiword-construction
- maillant gerund participle present
- ayant + past participle gerund multiword-construction participle
- maillé participle past
- maille first-person indicative present
- mailles indicative present second-person
- maillons first-person indicative plural
- maillez indicative plural present
- maillent indicative plural present
- maillais first-person imperfect indicative
- maillait imperfect indicative singular
- maillions first-person imperfect indicative
- mailliez imperfect indicative plural
- maillaient imperfect indicative plural
- maillai first-person historic indicative
- maillas historic indicative past
- mailla historic indicative past
- maillâmes first-person historic indicative
Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce mailler?
- /ma.je/
- /mɑ.je/
- \mɑ.je\
Sources: English Wiktionary, French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
How common is mailler in French?
mailler appears about once in every 14 million words in written French.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).