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mall

/mɔːl/noun, verb

mall is spelled M-A-L-L: 4 letters and one syllable. It appears 19 times per million words in written English, the 4,365th most frequent word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). As a noun, mall means “A pedestrianised street, especially a shopping precinct” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The plural of mall is malls.

How many letters and syllables are in mall?

Letters4: M-A-L-L
Syllables1 (from its American pronunciation)
In writing19 times per million words; the 4,365th most frequent word form
Wrong spellings searchednone measured in search
Pairs people search
Sounds like
Rhymes with

Sources: letters and syllables from the English Wiktionary's hyphenation or pronunciation and the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary; written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media); Bing searches in the United States: the average month from September 2025 to August 2026 (Microsoft Advertising keyword data through DataForSEO, read September 30, 2026); rhymes and same-letter words are computed by PlainSpell from its own word list.

How common is mall?

Mall appears 19 times per million words in written English, the 4,365th 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 mall?

  • /mɔːl/
  • /mæl/
  • US /mɔːl/

Mall has one syllable (counted from its American pronunciation in the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary).

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Recordings: En-us-mall.ogg, En-au-mall.ogg, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).

Words people confuse with mall

Word pairs people search, with the monthly searches for “a vs b” (G: Google, B: Bing, United States).

mall vs maul0 B

Sounds like: maul (Wiktionary's homophone list; some hold only in some accents).

Sources: Google and Bing searches (September 2025 to August 2026, through DataForSEO); English Wiktionary (homophones, alternative spellings).

What rhymes with mall?

The 12 most written words on PlainSpell end in the same sounds as mall from its last stressed vowel (/ɔl/):

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).

Forms of mall

  • malls plural, present, singular, he/she/it
  • malling participle, present
  • malled participle, past

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).

What does mall mean?

The meanings the English Wiktionary records, quoted as written there (source below).

noun

  1. 1

    AustraliaCanadaUSA pedestrianised street, especially a shopping precinct.

  2. 2

    An enclosed shopping centre.

  3. 3

    obsoleteAn alley where the game of pall mall was played.

  4. 4

    A public walk; a level shaded walk, a promenade.

  5. 5

    A heavy wooden mallet or hammer used in the game of pall mall.

  6. 6

    obsoleteThe game of polo.

  7. 7

    obsoleteAn old game played with malls or mallets and balls; pall mall.

verb

  1. 1

    to beat with a mall, or mallet; to beat with something heavy; to bruise

  2. 2

    to build up with the development of shopping malls

  3. 3

    informalto shop at the mall

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).

Mall in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese

LanguageWords
Frenchmail (alley where the game of pall mall was played), centre commercial (enclosed shopping centre)
GermanEinkaufszentrum (enclosed shopping centre)
Portuguesecentro comercial, shopping (enclosed shopping centre)
Spanishcentro comercial, shopping, mall, mol (enclosed shopping centre)

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Translations are Wiktionary's, by sense; a linked word has its own PlainSpell page.

Where does mall come from?

Probably from The Mall, a major street in London, England, which was originally a pall mall alley.

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).

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