Maylis
\me.lis\
The verdict
“Maylis” is uncommon French (frequency #76,793 among 5,038 “M” headwords), classed as a proper noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #76,793
- frequency rank, French
- 5,038
- “M” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Commune française, située dans le département des Landes.
Corpus desk
Index FR-maylis · Maylis · French
Maylis · rank #76,793 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #76,793
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,038
- PHOTO-FINISH mazars
Nearest frequency peer: mazars (+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 « Maylis »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- matricielle
matricielle
23,211 corpus weight
- mattes
mattes
23,210 corpus weight
- Maylis
Maylis
23,208 corpus weight
- mazars
mazars
23,207 corpus weight
- mesquines
mesquines
23,206 corpus weight
- MHR
MHR
23,205 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « Maylis » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Maylis |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| IPA | \me.lis\ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #76,793 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « Maylis » en français
Rare enough to double-check
Maylis is uncommon French at frequency #76,793 among 5,038 “M” headwords, classed as aproper noun, transcribed \me.lis\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Commune française, située dans le département des Landes.".
We couldn't generate a plausible misspelling set for Maylis, a sign its spelling follows regular French conventions. Our dataset records no confusable match here, a sign it's visually distinctive enough not to be mixed up with another word.
This entry's etymology isn't recorded, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. The correct French form is Maylis, spelled M-A-Y-L-I-S.
Definition
- 1Commune française, située dans le département des Landes.
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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