mahalo
/ˈmɑˌhɑloʊ/
"mahalo" is a 6-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“mahalo” is uncommon English (frequency #67,616 among 4,057 “M” headwords), classed as an interjection. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #67,616
- frequency rank, English
- 4,057
- “M” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - thank you
Corpus desk
Index EN-mahalo · mahalo · English
mahalo · rank #67,616 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #67,616
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 4,057
- PHOTO-FINISH Magnitsky
Nearest frequency peer: Magnitsky (-1 rank slots)
Read with this headword: Spelling guide for this pattern
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.
Long-tail ranks near “mahalo”
Sparse band: bars invert rank so rarer forms read shorter
- Mafioso
Mafioso
32,388 corpus weight
- magnetometer
magnetometer
32,387 corpus weight
- Magnitsky
Magnitsky
32,386 corpus weight
- mahalo
mahalo
32,385 corpus weight
- Malema
Malema
32,382 corpus weight
- manufactory
manufactory
32,380 corpus weight
What this shows Long-tail view: where “mahalo” sits against similarly uncommon English ranks.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | mahalo |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Interjection |
| IPA | /ˈmɑˌhɑloʊ/ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #67,616 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Long-tail rank of “mahalo” in English
Rare enough to double-check
mahalo is uncommon English at frequency #67,616 among 4,057 “M” headwords, classed as aninterjection, transcribed /ˈmɑˌhɑloʊ/. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "thank you".
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for mahalo, typically a sign the spelling maps closely to how the word sounds. No confusable counterpart is on file for this word, which typically means the spelling is too distinctive to be mistaken for another word.
Etymologically, the entry records: From Hawaiian mahalo, from Proto-Eastern Polynesian *masalo. The correct English form is mahalo, spelled M-A-H-A-L-O.
Definition
- 1thank you
Etymology
From Hawaiian mahalo, from Proto-Eastern Polynesian *masalo.
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 English corpus, MIT). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.
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Frequency-ranked English headwords with 6 letters (nearest by frequency rank).