malst
[maːlst]
The verdict
“malst” is uncommon German (frequency #75,947 among 3,571 “M” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #75,947
- frequency rank, German
- 3,571
- “M” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - 2. Person Singular Indikativ Präsens des Verbs malen
Corpus desk
Index DE-malst · malst · German
malst · rank #75,947 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #75,947
- LEN-MID 5 letters
- VOW-1 1 vowel
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,571
- PHOTO-FINISH malaysische
Nearest frequency peer: malaysische (-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.
Langschwanz-Ränge nahe „malst“
Dünnes Band: Balken invertieren den Rang, seltenere Formen wirken kürzer
- Maiskolben
Maiskolben
24,057 corpus weight
- malaysische
malaysische
24,055 corpus weight
- malst
malst
24,054 corpus weight
- Manaus
Manaus
24,053 corpus weight
- Mandelmilch
Mandelmilch
24,052 corpus weight
- Markenrecht
Markenrecht
24,050 corpus weight
What this shows Langschwanz-Sicht: wo „malst“ gegen ähnlich seltene deutsche Ränge sitzt.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | malst |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | [maːlst] |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #75,947 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Langschwanz-Rang von „malst“ im Deutschen
Rare enough to double-check
malst is uncommon German at frequency #75,947 among 3,571 “M” headwords, classed as averb, transcribed [maːlst]. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "2. Person Singular Indikativ Präsens des Verbs malen".
Zero misspellings are on record for malst in our index, which points to an orthography that plays by predictable German rules. Our confusable-pair dataset has no match for it, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
No borrowing history is documented for this entry, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct German form is malst, spelled M-A-L-S-T.
Definition
- 12. Person Singular Indikativ Präsens des Verbs malen
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 German corpus, MIT). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.
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