maillet
Letters
7 characters
Frequency Rank
#32,061
in French word usage
Misspellings
8
tracked variants
Confusables
16
similar word pairs
maillet is aFrenchnoun. It means: Outil ressemblant à un marteau à deux têtes, en bois, en caoutchouc ou en plastique. Il est utilisé par exemple en menuiserie pour le travail au ciseau ou par les campeurs pour planter des sardines... Pronounced \ma.jɛ\. Often confused with mille and malle.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | maillet |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ma.jɛ\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #32,061 |
| Misspellings tracked | 8 |
| Confusable pairs | 16 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for maillet is 7 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \ma.jɛ\. Corpus data places it at rank #32,061 in overall French word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it.Wiktionary records 4 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 8 documented wrong-spelling variants for maillet, with forms such as "amillet", "mailelt", and "mailet". 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 16 confusable-pair relationships, "mille", "malle", "Miller", 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 maillet, spelled M-A-I-L-L-E-T, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Outil ressemblant à un marteau à deux têtes, en bois, en caoutchouc ou en plastique. Il est utilisé par exemple en menuiserie pour le travail au ciseau ou par les campeurs pour planter des sardines dans le sol, mais aussi pour frapper sur des objets fragiles sans laisser de marque.
- 2Petit marteau entièrement en métal utilisée en chirurgie osseuse et orthopédique pour frapper sur divers instruments (gouge, ciseau).
- 3Petit mail servant au jeu de croquet.
- 4Meuble représentant l’outil du même nom dans les armoiries. Plusieurs représentations se rencontrent. On trouve aussi bien le maillet de menuisier de forme plus carrée que le maillet tonneau cerclé de métal. Il n’y a pas de règle en la matière. Sa position ordinaire est en pal, fer vers le chef. Quand il est présenté incliné, on le dit alors penché en bande ou en barre. À rapprocher de marteau, masse et massette.
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Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: amillet,mailelt,mailet,maillett,maillte,malilet,miallet,mmaillet
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
Relative frequency of common misspelling types for maillet
Misspelling Variants of "maillet"
Frequency rank: #32,061 in French
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