Malta fever
"malta-fever" is a 10-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“Malta fever” is uncommon English (outside the top frequency list), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency English
- 11
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - brucellosis
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Malta fever |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| Letters | 11 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “Malta fever” sits in English frequency
Rare enough to double-check
Malta fever is uncommon English outside the top frequency list, classed as anoun. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "brucellosis".
Malta fever has no tracked misspelling variants, since its letter sequence doesn't invite the usual edit-distance slips. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, since its spelling is unusual enough that it doesn't cluster with a lookalike.
Etymologically, the entry records: From the fact that the disease first came to the attention of British medical officers in Malta. The correct English form is Malta fever, spelled M-A-L-T-A- -F-E-V-E-R.
Definition
- 1brucellosis
Etymology
From the fact that the disease first came to the attention of British medical officers in Malta.
Definitions, pronunciation, and etymology for this entry are drawn from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org structured extract (CC BY-SA). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.
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Using “Malta fever”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct English spelling is M-A-L-T-A- -F-E-V-E-R - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
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Data Source
Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Word ordering uses an open word-frequency list; misspelling variants are generated by edit-distance from the correct headword.