Melayu
"melayu" is a 6-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“Melayu” is uncommon English (frequency #83,503 among 4,057 “M” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #83,503
- frequency rank, English
- 4,057
- “M” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - The Malay ethnic group.
Corpus desk
Index EN-melayu · Melayu · English
Melayu · rank #83,503 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #83,503
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 4,057
- PHOTO-FINISH Mehmed
Nearest frequency peer: Mehmed (-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 “Melayu”
Sparse band: bars invert rank so rarer forms read shorter
- medially
medially
16,504 corpus weight
- medicinally
medicinally
16,502 corpus weight
- Mehmed
Mehmed
16,499 corpus weight
- Melayu
Melayu
16,498 corpus weight
- menudo
menudo
16,494 corpus weight
- Merriweather
Merriweather
16,492 corpus weight
What this shows Long-tail view: where “Melayu” sits against similarly uncommon English ranks.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Melayu |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #83,503 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Long-tail rank of “Melayu” in English
Rare enough to double-check
Melayu is uncommon English at frequency #83,503 among 4,057 “M” headwords, classed as anoun. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "The Malay ethnic group.".
The misspelling generator found no plausible variants for Melayu, a sign its spelling follows regular English conventions. Our dataset records no confusable match here, a sign it's visually distinctive enough not to be mixed up with another word.
Etymologically, the entry records: Borrowed from Malay Melayu. The correct English form is Melayu, spelled M-E-L-A-Y-U.
Definition
- 1The Malay ethnic group.
Etymology
Borrowed from Malay Melayu.
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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Similar English words by spelling shape
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Frequency-ranked English headwords with 6 letters (nearest by frequency rank).