malai
/məˈlaɪ/noun
malai is spelled M-A-L-A-I: 5 letters. It appears about once in every 14 million words in written English, the 114,361st most frequent word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). As a noun, malai means “An Indian cream made by heating and then cooling non-homogenized whole milk and then skimming off the resulting fatty layer” (English Wiktionary, September 2026).
How many letters and syllables are in malai?
| Letters | 5: M-A-L-A-I |
|---|---|
| In writing | about once in every 14 million words; the 114,361st most frequent word form |
| Wrong spellings searched | none measured in search |
| Same letters |
Sources: letters and syllables from the English Wiktionary's hyphenation or pronunciation; written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media); rhymes and same-letter words are computed by PlainSpell from its own word list.
How common is malai?
Malai appears about once in every 14 million words in written English, the 114,361st most frequent word form in the list.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).
How do you pronounce malai?
- /məˈlaɪ/
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
What rhymes with malai?
No other word on PlainSpell ends in the same sounds as malai.
Spelled with the same letters in another order: lamia.
Computed by PlainSpell from the pronunciations in the English Wiktionary (dump of September 2, 2026): a rhyme shares every sound from the last stressed vowel to the end; ordered by written frequency (wordfreq 3.1).
What does malai mean?
The meanings the English Wiktionary records, quoted as written there (source below).
noun
- 1
An Indian cream made by heating and then cooling non-homogenized whole milk and then skimming off the resulting fatty layer.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
Where does malai come from?
Borrowed from Hindi मलाई (malāī).
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).