Malagasy
\ˌmæl.ə.ˈɡæs.i\
The verdict
“Malagasy” is uncommon French (frequency #66,891 among 5,038 “M” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #66,891
- frequency rank, French
- 5,038
- “M” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Malgache (personne).
Corpus desk
Index FR-malagasy · Malagasy · French
Malagasy · rank #66,891 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #66,891
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,038
- PHOTO-FINISH magnétiseur
Nearest frequency peer: magnétiseur (-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 « Malagasy »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- magical
magical
33,113 corpus weight
- magnifier
magnifier
33,112 corpus weight
- magnétiseur
magnétiseur
33,111 corpus weight
- Malagasy
Malagasy
33,110 corpus weight
- mals
mals
33,109 corpus weight
- maltraitent
maltraitent
33,108 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « Malagasy » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Malagasy |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ˌmæl.ə.ˈɡæs.i\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #66,891 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « Malagasy » en français
Rare enough to double-check
Malagasy is uncommon French at frequency #66,891 among 5,038 “M” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \ˌmæl.ə.ˈɡæs.i\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Malgache (personne).".
Zero misspellings are on record for Malagasy 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, a sign it's visually distinctive enough not to be mixed up with another word.
This entry carries no recorded etymology, 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 Malagasy, spelled M-A-L-A-G-A-S-Y.
Definition
- 1Malgache (personne).
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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