Maalouf
The verdict
“Maalouf” is uncommon French (frequency #52,178 among 5,038 “M” headwords), classed as a proper noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #52,178
- frequency rank, French
- 5,038
- “M” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Nom de famille.
Corpus desk
Index FR-maalouf · Maalouf · French
Maalouf · rank #52,178 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #52,178
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,038
- PHOTO-FINISH LV2
Nearest frequency peer: LV2 (-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.
Rangs de longue queue près de « Maalouf »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- Lully
Lully
47,827 corpus weight
- luxation
luxation
47,825 corpus weight
- LV2
LV2
47,824 corpus weight
- Maalouf
Maalouf
47,823 corpus weight
- mace
mace
47,822 corpus weight
- madness
madness
47,820 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « Maalouf » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Maalouf |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #52,178 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « Maalouf » en français
Rare enough to double-check
Maalouf is uncommon French at frequency #52,178 among 5,038 “M” headwords, classed as aproper noun. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Nom de famille.".
No generated misspelling entries exist for Maalouf in our index, which points to an orthography that plays by predictable French rules. This entry stands alone in our confusable dataset, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
No documented word history exists for this headword, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct French form is Maalouf, spelled M-A-A-L-O-U-F.
Definition
- 1Nom de famille.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how Maalouf appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Trompettiste de génie, Ibrahim Maalouf va ambiancer le stade Léo-Lagrange de Bondy (Seine-Saint-Denis) ce week-end'.
De cette jolie légende mêlant amour et mort, le romancier Amin Maalouf a écrit un texte.
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 French corpus, MIT). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.
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