maillots
\ma.jo\
The verdict
“maillots” has 10 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #14,309. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #14,309
- frequency rank, French
- 5,038
- “M” headwords
- 10
- tracked misspellings
- 7
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Pluriel de maillot.
Corpus desk
Index FR-maillots · maillots · French
maillots · rank #14,309 · 10 variants · 7 confusables
- FREQ-MID #14,309
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 7 pairs
- VAR-MID 10 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,038
- PHOTO-FINISH légaux
Nearest frequency peer: légaux (-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 « maillots »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- Louisiane
Louisiane
85,695 corpus weight
- lunette
lunette
85,694 corpus weight
- légaux
légaux
85,693 corpus weight
- maillots
maillots
85,692 corpus weight
- maladroit
maladroit
85,691 corpus weight
- manie
manie
85,690 corpus weight
What this shows « maillots » 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 | maillots |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ma.jo\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #14,309 |
| Misspellings tracked | 10 |
| Confusable pairs | 7 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « maillots »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 10 spelling variants around maillots (IPA \ma.jo\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #14,309 among 5,038 “M” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Pluriel de maillot.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 10 likely wrong-spelling variants for maillots, with forms such as "amillots", "maillost", and "maillotss". 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 7 confusable-pair relationships, "Millot", "matelots", "mayo", and more, since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
No documented word history exists for this headword, so its spelling is best explained by sound-to-letter mapping rather than etymology. The correct French form is maillots, spelled M-A-I-L-L-O-T-S.
Definition
- 1Pluriel de maillot.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how maillots appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Autre détail en passant : les maillots de soie étaient réservés aux pistards, ceux de laine aux routiers...
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- amillots
- maillost
- maillotss
- maillotts
- mailltos
- mailolts
- mailots
- malilots
- miallots
- mmaillots
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of maillots - 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).