Maley
"maley" is a 5-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“Maley” is uncommon English (frequency #96,187 among 4,057 “M” headwords), classed as a proper noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #96,187
- frequency rank, English
- 4,057
- “M” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - A surname from Irish.
Corpus desk
Index EN-maley · Maley · English
Maley · rank #96,187 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #96,187
- LEN-MID 5 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 4,057
- PHOTO-FINISH maken
Nearest frequency peer: maken (-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 “Maley”
Sparse band: bars invert rank so rarer forms read shorter
- madrassa
madrassa
3,817 corpus weight
- mahr
mahr
3,816 corpus weight
- maken
maken
3,815 corpus weight
- Maley
Maley
3,814 corpus weight
- mallam
mallam
3,813 corpus weight
- Maloof
Maloof
3,812 corpus weight
What this shows Long-tail view: where “Maley” sits against similarly uncommon English ranks.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Maley |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #96,187 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Long-tail rank of “Maley” in English
Rare enough to double-check
Maley is uncommon English at frequency #96,187 among 4,057 “M” headwords, classed as aproper noun. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "A surname from Irish.".
The misspelling generator found no plausible variants for Maley, suggesting the orthography follows predictable English patterns. Our confusable-pair dataset has no match for it, suggesting its spelling stands apart enough that readers rarely confuse it with something else.
Etymologically, the entry records: * As an Irish surname, variant of Malley, see O'Malley. * As a Carpathian Rusyn surname, variant of Mljec, from млєц (mljec, “to mill”), from Proto-Slavic *melti. * As a Czech and Slovak (Malý), Polish (Mały, Maly), and Slovene surname (Mali), from *malъ (“… The correct English form is Maley, spelled M-A-L-E-Y.
Definition
- 1A surname from Irish.
Etymology
* As an Irish surname, variant of Malley, see O'Malley. * As a Carpathian Rusyn surname, variant of Mljec, from млєц (mljec, “to mill”), from Proto-Slavic *melti. * As a Czech and Slovak (Malý), Polish (Mały, Maly), and Slovene surname (Mali), from *malъ (“little, small”). Compare Maly.
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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