Côte de Malabar
\kot də ma.la.baʁ\
The verdict
“Côte de Malabar” is uncommon French (outside the top frequency list), classed as a proper noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency French
- 15
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Portion du sud-ouest du littoral indien entre Goa et le cap Comorin.
Corpus desk
Index FR-cote-de-malabar · Côte de Malabar · French
Côte de Malabar · unranked · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-UNRANKED Unranked
- LEN-MEGA 15 letters
- VOW-6 6 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-THIN "C" thin
- PHOTO-UNK Peer pending
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.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Côte de Malabar |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| IPA | \kot də ma.la.baʁ\ |
| Letters | 15 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
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Rare enough to double-check
Côte de Malabar is uncommon French outside the top frequency list, classed as aproper noun, transcribed \kot də ma.la.baʁ\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Portion du sud-ouest du littoral indien entre Goa et le cap Comorin.".
The misspelling generator found no plausible variants for Côte de Malabar, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. We don't track a confusable pairing for this entry, a sign it's visually distinctive enough not to be mixed up with another word.
No documented word history exists for this headword, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct French form is Côte de Malabar, spelled C-Ô-T-E- -D-E- -M-A-L-A-B-A-R.
Definition
- 1Portion du sud-ouest du littoral indien entre Goa et le cap Comorin.
Antonyms
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.