maillot
Letters
7 characters
Frequency Rank
#3,775
in French word usage
Misspellings
8
tracked variants
Confusables
11
similar word pairs
maillot is aFrenchnoun. It means: Lange dont on enveloppe un enfant au berceau. Pronounced \ma.jo\. It ranks #3,775 in French word frequency. Often confused with millet and mallet.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | maillot |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ma.jo\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #3,775 |
| Misspellings tracked | 8 |
| Confusable pairs | 11 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for maillot is 7 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \ma.jo\. Corpus data places it at rank #3,775 in overall French word frequency, indicating it appears regularly in written and spoken text.Wiktionary records 6 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our generated misspelling index lists 8 likely wrong-spelling variants for maillot, with forms such as "amillot", "maillott", and "maillto". 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 11 confusable-pair relationships, "millet", "mallet", "Mailly", 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 maillot, spelled M-A-I-L-L-O-T, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Lange dont on enveloppe un enfant au berceau.
- 2Vêtement souple qui couvre et moule le corps en totalité ou jusqu'à la taille et qui se porte à même la peau.
- 3Vêtement de bain.
- 4Vêtement ne couvrant que le haut du corps.
- 5Maillot de corps : sous-vêtement couvrant le haut du corps, tricot de peau.
- 6Poils du pubis visibles sur les cuisses.
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Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: amillot,maillott,maillto,mailolt,mailot,malilot,miallot,mmaillot
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
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Misspelling Variants of "maillot"
Frequency rank: #3,775 in French
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