maillons
\mɑ.jɔ̃\
The verdict
“maillons” has 10 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #44,037. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #44,037
- frequency rank, French
- 5,038
- “M” headwords
- 10
- tracked misspellings
- 8
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Pluriel de maillon.
Corpus desk
Index FR-maillons · maillons · French
maillons · rank #44,037 · 10 variants · 8 confusables
- FREQ-MID #44,037
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 8 pairs
- VAR-MID 10 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,038
- PHOTO-FINISH maigret
Nearest frequency peer: maigret (-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 « maillons »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- maghrébines
maghrébines
55,967 corpus weight
- mahé
mahé
55,966 corpus weight
- maigret
maigret
55,965 corpus weight
- maillons
maillons
55,964 corpus weight
- mamelles
mamelles
55,962 corpus weight
- mariez
mariez
55,961 corpus weight
What this shows « maillons » siège parmi ces pairs FrequencyWords; la profondeur des fautes est suivie à part dans le graphique d'édition.
Visual similarity to commonly confused words
How many letter changes separate each confused pair (Levenshtein distance, normalized).
Source: PlainSpell confusable corpus (Wiktionary, CC BY-SA).
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | maillons |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \mɑ.jɔ̃\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #44,037 |
| Misspellings tracked | 10 |
| Confusable pairs | 8 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « maillons »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 10 spelling variants around maillons (IPA \mɑ.jɔ̃\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #44,037 among 5,038 “M” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Pluriel de maillon.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 10 likely wrong-spelling variants for maillons, with forms such as "amillons", "maillnos", and "maillonns". 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 8 confusable-pair relationships, "maisons", "maillot", "millions", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
No borrowing history is documented for this entry, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct French form is maillons, spelled M-A-I-L-L-O-N-S.
Definition
- 1Pluriel de maillon.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how maillons appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Surtout, dans ce cas, il n’y aurait aucune raison de ne pas recalibrer toujours le modèle plus largement, « stochasticisant » étape après étape tous les paramètres successivement, dans une chaine sans fin puisqu’on intercalerait sans cesse dans son amarrage de nouveaux maillons.
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- amillons
- maillnos
- maillonns
- maillonss
- maillosn
- mailolns
- mailons
- malilons
- miallons
- mmaillons
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of maillons - 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.
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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Similar French words by spelling shape
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Same letter count
Frequency-ranked French headwords with 8 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (10 here; floor ≥5).