Maëlle
\ma.ɛl\
The verdict
“Maëlle” is uncommon French (frequency #65,304 among 5,038 “M” headwords), classed as a proper noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #65,304
- frequency rank, French
- 5,038
- “M” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Prénom féminin.
Corpus desk
Index FR-maelle · Maëlle · French
Maëlle · rank #65,304 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #65,304
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,038
- PHOTO-FINISH Mazzini
Nearest frequency peer: Mazzini (-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 « Maëlle »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- Mathew
Mathew
34,702 corpus weight
- Maul
Maul
34,700 corpus weight
- Mazzini
Mazzini
34,698 corpus weight
- Maëlle
Maëlle
34,697 corpus weight
- McConaughey
McConaughey
34,696 corpus weight
- MDPH
MDPH
34,693 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « Maëlle » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Maëlle |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| IPA | \ma.ɛl\ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #65,304 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « Maëlle » en français
Rare enough to double-check
Maëlle is uncommon French at frequency #65,304 among 5,038 “M” headwords, classed as aproper noun, transcribed \ma.ɛl\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Prénom féminin.".
No generated misspelling entries exist for Maëlle in our index, since its letter pattern doesn't lend itself to common typo substitutions. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, suggesting its spelling stands apart enough that readers rarely confuse it with something else.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. The correct French form is Maëlle, spelled M-A-Ë-L-L-E.
Definition
- 1Prénom féminin.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how Maëlle appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
« On voit bien que le mouvement se durcit, même si on ne cautionne pas ces violences », constate Maëlle Nizan, vice-présidente de la Fage.
Après le bronze obtenu au Mondial, Gaëlle Mignot et David Ortiz, les cosélectionneurs ont fait appel a des nouvelles têtes, comme Carla Arbez (photo) ou Maëlle Picut.
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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