maillon

\mɑ.jɔ̃\

/\mɑ.jɔ̃\/ noun

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The verdict

“maillon” has 8 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #23,928. The variants make it a useful spelling check.

#23,928
frequency rank, French
5,038
“M” headwords
8
tracked misspellings
14
confusable pairs

According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Petite maille.

Corpus desk

Index FR-maillon · maillon · French

maillon · rank #23,928 · 8 variants · 14 confusables

  • FREQ-MID #23,928
  • LEN-LONG 7 letters
  • VOW-3 3 vowels
  • CONFUS-MID 14 pairs
  • VAR-MID 8 variants
  • BOOK-DENSE 5,038
  • PHOTO-FINISH maintiens

Nearest frequency peer: maintiens (+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.

Pairs de rang près de l'aimant d'erreurs « maillon »

Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin

corpus weight

What this shows « maillon » siège parmi ces pairs FrequencyWords; la profondeur des fautes est suivie à part dans le graphique d'édition.

Source FrequencyWords open word-frequency list As of September 3, 2026

Visual similarity to commonly confused words

How many letter changes separate each confused pair (Levenshtein distance, normalized).

maillon vs milon
71% similar
maillon vs maison
71% similar
maillon vs Milton
57% similar

Source: PlainSpell confusable corpus (Wiktionary, CC BY-SA).

Key facts for maillon
PropertyValue
Headwordmaillon
LanguageFrench
Part of speechNoun
IPA\mɑ.jɔ̃\
Letters7
Frequency rank#23,928
Misspellings tracked8
Confusable pairs14
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « maillon »

La fréquence va de la poignée de mots du quotidien (gauche) à la longue queue presque jamais vue (droite).maillonse place ici:

#1#100#1K#10K#100K
← used constantlyrarely used →

Les tics avancent en logarithme; chacun est de l'ordre de dix fois plus rare. Dans la même bande de rareté figurent « maintiens » (#23,929), « légiférer » (#23,926), « maliens » (#23,930). Parmi 5,038 lemmes en « M », « maillon » est au #23,928. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

A misspelling magnet

The generator records 8 spelling variants around maillon (IPA \mɑ.jɔ̃\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #23,928 among 5,038 “M” headwords. Wiktionary lists 6 senses, so context still picks the gloss.

Our generated misspelling index lists 8 likely wrong-spelling variants for maillon, with forms such as "amillon", "maillno", and "maillonn". Each variant is a distinct typo pattern an edit-distance generator flags, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution. It also participates in 14 confusable-pair relationships, "milon", "maison", "Milton", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.

This entry's etymology isn't recorded, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct French form is maillon, spelled M-A-I-L-L-O-N.

Definition

  1. 1
    Petite maille.
  2. 2
    Petite maille.
  3. 3
    Petite maille.
  4. 4
    Longueur indivisible de trente mètres de chaîne.
  5. 5
    Longueur indivisible de trente mètres de chaîne.
  6. 6
    Nœud coulant fait avec un cordage, pour récupérer un objet tombé à l'eau.

Recorded use

Wiktionary examples

These source excerpts show how maillon appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.

  1. Un maillon de ma chaîne de montre s’est rompu.
  2. L’acétylcholine n’est qu’un maillon d’une chaîne métabolitique où interviennent divers systèmes enzymatiques sur lesquels les insecticides peuvent aussi agir.

Synonyms

chaînon

This word in other languages

link(English)eslabón(Español)Glied(Deutsch)

Common misspellings

Also misspelled as:

  • amillon
  • maillno
  • maillonn
  • mailoln
  • mailon
  • malilon
  • miallon
  • mmaillon

Misspelling Pattern Breakdown

How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of maillon - expressed in single-character edits (insert, delete, or swap one letter). Bigger bars stand out at a glance; a one-edit slip is the hardest to catch.

amillon2maillno2maillonn1mailoln2mailon1malilon2miallon2mmaillon1
Edit distance from "maillon"

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.

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "maillon"?
"maillon" is spelled M-A-I-L-L-O-N. The IPA pronunciation is \mɑ.jɔ̃\.
What does "maillon" mean?
As a noun, "maillon" means: Petite maille.
What words are commonly confused with "maillon"?
"maillon" is commonly confused with "milon", "maison", "Milton". These words look or sound similar but have different meanings. PlainSpell provides detailed comparisons for each pair.
How do you pronounce "maillon"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "maillon" is \mɑ.jɔ̃\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "maillon" come from?
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Similar French words by spelling shape

Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "maillon", not the corpus desk frequency band.

Same letter count

Frequency-ranked French headwords with 7 letters (nearest by frequency rank).

maliens#23,930libérez#23,923isolant#23,912mordant#23,944

Similar misspelling depth

Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (8 here; floor ≥5).

indigo8 variantsnicola8 variantsNoémie8 variantsIgnace8 variants

Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org) Structured Wiktionary extract

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list