Maaloula
\ma.a.lu.la\
The verdict
“Maaloula” is uncommon French (frequency #92,955 among 5,038 “M” headwords), classed as a proper noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #92,955
- frequency rank, French
- 5,038
- “M” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Village montagneux de Syrie, situé dans le Rif Dimashq au nord-est de Damas.
Corpus desk
Index FR-maaloula · Maaloula · French
Maaloula · rank #92,955 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #92,955
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-5 5 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,038
- PHOTO-FINISH macadamia
Nearest frequency peer: macadamia (+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 « Maaloula »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- lug
lug
7,051 corpus weight
- luxuriantes
luxuriantes
7,050 corpus weight
- Lécuyer
Lécuyer
7,049 corpus weight
- Maaloula
Maaloula
7,046 corpus weight
- macadamia
macadamia
7,045 corpus weight
- macareux
macareux
7,044 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « Maaloula » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Maaloula |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| IPA | \ma.a.lu.la\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #92,955 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « Maaloula » en français
Rare enough to double-check
Maaloula is uncommon French at frequency #92,955 among 5,038 “M” headwords, classed as aproper noun, transcribed \ma.a.lu.la\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Village montagneux de Syrie, situé dans le Rif Dimashq au nord-est de Damas.".
The misspelling generator found no plausible variants for Maaloula, which points to an orthography that plays by predictable French rules. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so its spelling is best read as a straightforward mapping from sound to letter. The correct French form is Maaloula, spelled M-A-A-L-O-U-L-A.
Definition
- 1Village montagneux de Syrie, situé dans le Rif Dimashq au nord-est de Damas.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how Maaloula appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Des combats étaient toujours en cours dans la soirée autour de Maaloula, selon la même source.
La population de l’endrit, Maaloula, majoritairement chrétienne, s’exprime aujourd’hui encore dans un dialecte syriaque, hérité de l’araméen et disparu partout ailleurs.
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 French corpus, MIT). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.
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