mahal

noun

Letters

5 characters

Frequency Rank

#41,883

in French word usage

Misspellings

7

tracked variants

Confusables

20

similar word pairs

mahal is aFrenchnoun. It means: Palais du Grand Mogol. Often confused with mal and mail.

Key facts for mahal
PropertyValue
Headwordmahal
LanguageFrench
Part of speechNoun
Letters5
Frequency rank#41,883
Misspellings tracked7
Confusable pairs20
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Frequency rank visualization

Position of mahal in French word frequency (lower rank = more common)

Source: Wordfreq corpus

Spelling & Dictionary Insight

The French entry for mahal is 5 letters long, classified as anoun. Corpus data places it at rank #41,883 in overall French word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it.The dominant gloss from Wiktionary reads: "Palais du Grand Mogol.".

Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 7 documented wrong-spelling variants for mahal, with forms such as "amhal", "maahl", and "mahall". Each variant represents a distinct typo pattern that appears often enough in corpora to be worth flagging, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution.It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "mal", "mail", "maya", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.

No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. For readers arriving here from a spelling check, the authoritative guidance is: the correct French form is mahal, spelled M-A-H-A-L, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.

Definition

  1. 1
    Palais du Grand Mogol.

This word in other languages

Common misspellings

Also misspelled as: amhal,maahl,mahall,mahhal,mahla,mhaal,mmahal

Misspelling Pattern Breakdown

Relative frequency of common misspelling types for mahal

Misspelling Variants of "mahal"

amhal5maahl5mahall6mahhal6mahla5mhaal5mmahal6
Misspelling Variants of "mahal"

Frequency rank: #41,883 in French

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "mahal"?
"mahal" is spelled M-A-H-A-L.
What does "mahal" mean?
As a noun, "mahal" means: Palais du Grand Mogol.
What words are commonly confused with "mahal"?
"mahal" is commonly confused with "mal", "mail", "maya". These words look or sound similar but have different meanings. PlainSpell provides detailed comparisons for each pair.
What language does "mahal" come from?
"mahal" is a French word. PlainSpell covers definitions, pronunciations, and spelling data across English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, and German.
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Nearby French words

Other entries that begin with the letter M in our French index:

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Data Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Frequency data from Wordfreq. Misspellings derived from Hunspell dictionaries.