Mafalda
\ma.fal.da\
The verdict
“Mafalda” is uncommon French (frequency #82,207 among 5,038 “M” headwords), classed as a proper noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #82,207
- frequency rank, French
- 5,038
- “M” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Commune d’Italie de la province de Campobasso dans la région du Molise.
Corpus desk
Index FR-mafalda · Mafalda · French
Mafalda · rank #82,207 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #82,207
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,038
- PHOTO-FINISH magnifie
Nearest frequency peer: magnifie (+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 « Mafalda »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- légalisant
légalisant
17,797 corpus weight
- léviter
léviter
17,796 corpus weight
- Mafalda
Mafalda
17,794 corpus weight
- magnifie
magnifie
17,793 corpus weight
- mainlevée
mainlevée
17,791 corpus weight
- manant
manant
17,790 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « Mafalda » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Mafalda |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| IPA | \ma.fal.da\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #82,207 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « Mafalda » en français
Rare enough to double-check
Mafalda is uncommon French at frequency #82,207 among 5,038 “M” headwords, classed as aproper noun, transcribed \ma.fal.da\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Commune d’Italie de la province de Campobasso dans la région du Molise.".
The misspelling generator found no plausible variants for Mafalda, which points to an orthography that plays by predictable French rules. This entry stands alone in our confusable 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 its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct French form is Mafalda, spelled M-A-F-A-L-D-A.
Definition
- 1Commune d’Italie de la province de Campobasso dans la région du Molise.
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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