malle
"malle" is a 5-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“malle” is uncommon English (frequency #90,694 among 4,057 “M” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #90,694
- frequency rank, English
- 4,057
- “M” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - A heavy hammer or beetle, often made of wood or lead.
Corpus desk
Index EN-malle · malle · English
malle · rank #90,694 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #90,694
- LEN-MID 5 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 4,057
- PHOTO-FINISH malky
Nearest frequency peer: malky (-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 “malle”
Sparse band: bars invert rank so rarer forms read shorter
- maci
maci
9,316 corpus weight
- Madani
Madani
9,315 corpus weight
- maddock
maddock
9,314 corpus weight
- malky
malky
9,308 corpus weight
- malle
malle
9,307 corpus weight
- mandelbrot
mandelbrot
9,306 corpus weight
What this shows Long-tail view: where “malle” sits against similarly uncommon English ranks.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | malle |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #90,694 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Long-tail rank of “malle” in English
Rare enough to double-check
malle is uncommon English at frequency #90,694 among 4,057 “M” headwords, classed as anoun. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "A heavy hammer or beetle, often made of wood or lead.".
The misspelling generator found no plausible variants for malle, which points to an orthography that plays by predictable English rules. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, which typically means the spelling is too distinctive to be mistaken for another word.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. The correct English form is malle, spelled M-A-L-L-E.
Definition
- 1A heavy hammer or beetle, often made of wood or lead.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how malle appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
There is also an entry of two hundred Malles in a store house at Berwick.
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 5 letters (nearest by frequency rank).