maillot vert
\ma.jo vɛʁ\
The verdict
“maillot vert” is outside the top-ranked French vocabulary, used as a noun - the kind of word writers most often double-check.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency French
- 12
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) — Maillot porté par le ou la cycliste en tête du classement du sprint dans certaines courses par étapes, en particulier le Tour de France.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | maillot vert |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ma.jo vɛʁ\ |
| Letters | 12 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “maillot vert” sits in French frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for maillot vert is 12 letters long, classified as a noun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \ma.jo vɛʁ\. It sits outside the most-frequent rank tiers, which is often why uncommon words generate more spelling variants per reader. Wiktionary records 2 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
No misspelling variants are generated for maillot vert in our index, suggesting the orthography follows predictable French patterns. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
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 vert, spelled M-A-I-L-L-O-T- -V-E-R-T, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Maillot porté par le ou la cycliste en tête du classement du sprint dans certaines courses par étapes, en particulier le Tour de France.
- 2Cycliste qui porte ce maillot.
Definitions, pronunciation, and etymology for this entry are drawn from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org structured extract (CC BY-SA). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.
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- The one correct French spelling is M-A-I-L-L-O-T- -V-E-R-T - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
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