Malabo
\ma.la.bo\
The verdict
“Malabo” is uncommon French (frequency #74,974 among 5,038 “M” headwords), classed as a proper noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #74,974
- frequency rank, French
- 5,038
- “M” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Ville et capitale de la Guinée équatoriale.
Corpus desk
Index FR-malabo · Malabo · French
Malabo · rank #74,974 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #74,974
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,038
- PHOTO-FINISH makhzen
Nearest frequency peer: makhzen (-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 « Malabo »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- maigrichon
maigrichon
25,030 corpus weight
- maint
maint
25,029 corpus weight
- makhzen
makhzen
25,028 corpus weight
- Malabo
Malabo
25,027 corpus weight
- malmène
malmène
25,025 corpus weight
- Malvy
Malvy
25,024 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « Malabo » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Malabo |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| IPA | \ma.la.bo\ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #74,974 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « Malabo » en français
Rare enough to double-check
Malabo is uncommon French at frequency #74,974 among 5,038 “M” headwords, classed as aproper noun, transcribed \ma.la.bo\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
Malabo has no tracked misspelling variants, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, since its spelling is unusual enough that it doesn't cluster with a lookalike.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, so its spelling is best read as a straightforward mapping from sound to letter. The correct French form is Malabo, spelled M-A-L-A-B-O.
Definition
- 1Ville et capitale de la Guinée équatoriale.
- 2Gouvernement équato-guinéen.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how Malabo appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
À l'époque, Yaoundé avait accusé la Guinée Equatoriale d’avoir empiété sur son territoire, ce qu’avait démenti Malabo. Les tensions avaient été ravivées quand Malabo a entrepris la construction de miradors au même endroit, d’après une publication en juin, du quotidien d’État camerounais Cameroon Tribune.
Synonyms
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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