Mailloux
The verdict
“Mailloux” is uncommon French (frequency #56,086 among 5,038 “M” headwords), classed as a proper noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #56,086
- frequency rank, French
- 5,038
- “M” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Nom de famille québécois.
Corpus desk
Index FR-mailloux · Mailloux · French
Mailloux · rank #56,086 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #56,086
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,038
- PHOTO-FINISH makeup
Nearest frequency peer: makeup (+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.
Rangs de longue queue près de « Mailloux »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- lubies
lubies
43,919 corpus weight
- Maeva
Maeva
43,918 corpus weight
- magnétoscope
magnétoscope
43,917 corpus weight
- Mailloux
Mailloux
43,915 corpus weight
- makeup
makeup
43,914 corpus weight
- malvoyants
malvoyants
43,912 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « Mailloux » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Mailloux |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #56,086 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « Mailloux » en français
Rare enough to double-check
Mailloux is uncommon French at frequency #56,086 among 5,038 “M” headwords, classed as aproper noun. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Nom de famille québécois.".
No misspelling variants are generated for Mailloux in our index, a sign its spelling follows regular French conventions. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, which usually means its spelling is distinct enough that readers don't reach for a similar-looking word instead.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, so its spelling is easiest explained by how it's pronounced rather than where it came from. The correct French form is Mailloux, spelled M-A-I-L-L-O-U-X.
Definition
- 1Nom de famille québécois.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how Mailloux appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Louise Mailloux, l’auteure de la première plainte, remet en question la conduite de la juge en chef de la Cour du Québec, Lucie Rondeau.
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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