Malika
"malika" is a 6-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“Malika” is uncommon English (frequency #76,093 among 4,057 “M” headwords), classed as a proper noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #76,093
- frequency rank, English
- 4,057
- “M” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - A female given name from Arabic, the female version of the title Malik ("King" in Arabic).
Corpus desk
Index EN-malika · Malika · English
Malika · rank #76,093 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #76,093
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 4,057
- PHOTO-FINISH Makepeace
Nearest frequency peer: Makepeace (-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 “Malika”
Sparse band: bars invert rank so rarer forms read shorter
- mafic
mafic
23,913 corpus weight
- magisterium
magisterium
23,912 corpus weight
- Makepeace
Makepeace
23,909 corpus weight
- Malika
Malika
23,908 corpus weight
- malus
malus
23,905 corpus weight
- mamo
mamo
23,904 corpus weight
What this shows Long-tail view: where “Malika” sits against similarly uncommon English ranks.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Malika |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #76,093 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Long-tail rank of “Malika” in English
Rare enough to double-check
Malika is uncommon English at frequency #76,093 among 4,057 “M” headwords, classed as aproper noun. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "A female given name from Arabic, the female version of the title Malik ("King" in Arabic).".
No misspelling variants are generated for Malika in our index, which points to an orthography that plays by predictable English rules. No confusable counterpart is on file for this word, since no other headword is close enough in sound or shape to pair with it.
Etymologically, the entry records: Borrowed from Arabic مَلِكَة (malika, “queen”). The correct English form is Malika, spelled M-A-L-I-K-A.
Definition
- 1A female given name from Arabic, the female version of the title Malik ("King" in Arabic).
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how Malika appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Malika Harris places a candle down for her sister Nia Wilson at a makeshift memorial outside the MacArthur Bay Area Rapid Transit station, Monday, July 23, 2018, in Oakland.
Etymology
Borrowed from Arabic مَلِكَة (malika, “queen”).
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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Similar English words by spelling shape
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Frequency-ranked English headwords with 6 letters (nearest by frequency rank).