mails
\maj\
The verdict
“mails” has 7 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #7,725. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #7,725
- frequency rank, French
- 5,038
- “M” headwords
- 7
- tracked misspellings
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Pluriel de mail.
Corpus desk
Index FR-mails · mails · French
mails · rank #7,725 · 7 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-COMMON #7,725
- LEN-MID 5 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-MID 7 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,038
- PHOTO-FINISH mafia
Nearest frequency peer: mafia (-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 « mails »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- Leclerc
Leclerc
92,279 corpus weight
- loyers
loyers
92,278 corpus weight
- mafia
mafia
92,277 corpus weight
- mails
mails
92,276 corpus weight
- merveilleuse
merveilleuse
92,275 corpus weight
- mix
mix
92,274 corpus weight
What this shows « mails » 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 | mails |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \maj\ |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #7,725 |
| Misspellings tracked | 7 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « mails »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 7 spelling variants around mails (IPA \maj\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #7,725 among 5,038 “M” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Pluriel de mail.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 7 likely wrong-spelling variants for mails, with forms such as "amils", "maills", and "mailss". Each of these forms differs from the correct spelling by one small edit: a doubled letter, a dropped silent letter, or a substituted vowel. It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "mal", "mis", "mas", 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 pattern is best understood through pronunciation rather than a traceable origin. The correct French form is mails, spelled M-A-I-L-S.
Definition
- 1Pluriel de mail.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how mails appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Dans les soupers, les réunions ou sous les tièdes mails des promenades, le trio se va et glisse, superbe.
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- amils
- maills
- mailss
- maisl
- malis
- mials
- mmails
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of mails - 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 5 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (7 here; floor ≥5).