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malo

noun

malo is spelled M-A-L-O: 4 letters and 2 syllables. It appears about once in every 3 million words in written English, the 48,775th most frequent word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). As a noun, malo means “malolactic fermentation” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The plural of malo is malos.

How many letters and syllables are in malo?

Letters4: M-A-L-O
Syllables2 (from its American pronunciation)
In writingabout once in every 3 million words; the 48,775th most frequent word form
Wrong spellings searchednone measured in search
Same letters

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); rhymes and same-letter words are computed by PlainSpell from its own word list.

How common is malo?

Malo appears about once in every 3 million words in written English, the 48,775th 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 malo?

    Malo has 2 syllables (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).

    What rhymes with malo?

    No other word on PlainSpell ends in the same sounds as malo.

    Spelled with the same letters in another order: loma, loam, mola, amol.

    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 malo

    • malos plural

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

    What does malo mean?

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

    noun

    1. 1

      informalmalolactic fermentation

    2. 2

      A Hawaiian loincloth.

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

    Where does malo come from?

    Shortening of malolactic.

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

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