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maoli

noun

maoli is spelled M-A-O-L-I: 5 letters. It appears about once in every 46 million words in written English, the 209,386th most frequent word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). As a noun, maoli means “Alternative form of Maoli (native Hawaiian)” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The plural of maoli is maolis.

How many letters and syllables are in maoli?

Letters5: M-A-O-L-I
In writingabout once in every 46 million words; the 209,386th most frequent word form
Wrong spellings searchednone measured in search

Sources: letters and syllables from the English Wiktionary's hyphenation or pronunciation; written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).

How common is maoli?

Maoli appears about once in every 46 million words in written English, the 209,386th 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).

Forms of maoli

  • maolis plural

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

What does maoli mean?

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

noun

  1. 1

    Alternative form of Maoli (native Hawaiian)

  2. 2

    A species of very tall, dark green-stemmed banana native to Polynesia, having large bunches of long, round fruits with dark-colored flesh.

noun

as Maoli
  1. 1

    A native of the Polynesian people who settled Hawaii.

  2. 2

    Alternative form of maoli (type of banana).

  3. 3

    A religious sect of central India.

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

Where does maoli come from?

Senses 1 and 2 are borrowed from Hawaiian maoli. Compare Maori (the indigenous people in New Zealand).

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

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