maillets
\ma.jɛ\
The verdict
“maillets” is uncommon French (frequency #92,965 among 5,038 “M” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #92,965
- frequency rank, French
- 5,038
- “M” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Pluriel de maillet.
Corpus desk
Index FR-maillets · maillets · French
maillets · rank #92,965 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #92,965
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,038
- PHOTO-FINISH mahométane
Nearest frequency peer: mahométane (-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.
Rangs de longue queue près de « maillets »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- Magnac
Magnac
7,038 corpus weight
- mahométane
mahométane
7,037 corpus weight
- maillets
maillets
7,036 corpus weight
- malaisée
malaisée
7,035 corpus weight
- malaxer
malaxer
7,034 corpus weight
- malices
malices
7,033 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « maillets » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | maillets |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ma.jɛ\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #92,965 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « maillets » en français
Rare enough to double-check
maillets is uncommon French at frequency #92,965 among 5,038 “M” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \ma.jɛ\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Pluriel de maillet.".
No generated misspelling entries exist for maillets in our index, since its letter pattern doesn't lend itself to common typo substitutions. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, a sign it's visually distinctive enough not to be mixed up with another word.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct French form is maillets, spelled M-A-I-L-L-E-T-S.
Definition
- 1Pluriel de maillet.
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.
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