Malibú
[maliˈβ̞u]
The verdict
“Malibú” is uncommon Spanish (frequency #56,457 among 3,868 “M” headwords), classed as a proper noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #56,457
- frequency rank, Spanish
- 3,868
- “M” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Ciudad de California conocida por sus playas y ubicación cerca de Los Ángeles.
Corpus desk
Index ES-malibu · Malibú · Spanish
Malibú · rank #56,457 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #56,457
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,868
- PHOTO-FINISH maleable
Nearest frequency peer: maleable (-1 rank slots)
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.
Rangos de cola larga cerca de “Malibú”
Banda escasa: las barras invierten el rango para que lo raro se lea más corto
- Madina
Madina
43,548 corpus weight
- madruga
madruga
43,547 corpus weight
- maleable
maleable
43,545 corpus weight
- Malibú
Malibú
43,544 corpus weight
- mandemos
mandemos
43,543 corpus weight
- mansalva
mansalva
43,541 corpus weight
What this shows Vista de cola larga: dónde “Malibú” se sitúa frente a rangos españoles igualmente raros.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Malibú |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| IPA | [maliˈβ̞u] |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #56,457 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Cola larga: rango de “Malibú” en español
Rare enough to double-check
Malibú is uncommon Spanish at frequency #56,457 among 3,868 “M” headwords, classed as aproper noun, transcribed [maliˈβ̞u]. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
No misspelling variants are generated for Malibú in our index, which points to an orthography that plays by predictable Spanish rules. This entry stands alone in our confusable dataset, a sign it's visually distinctive enough not to be mixed up with another word.
Our source data has no etymology on file for this entry, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct Spanish form is Malibú, spelled M-A-L-I-B-Ú.
Definition
- 1Ciudad de California conocida por sus playas y ubicación cerca de Los Ángeles.
- 2Licor hecho en las Barbados de extracto natural de coco a base de ron.
This word in other languages
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 Spanish corpus, MIT). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.
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