malamute de l’Alaska
\ma.la.myt də l‿a.las.ka\
The verdict
“malamute de l’Alaska” is outside the top-ranked French vocabulary, used as a noun - the kind of word writers most often double-check.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency French
- 20
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - Race de chien de traîneau de type spitz, originaire de l’Alaska, massif, au poil épais et rude, à robe bicolore.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | malamute de l’Alaska |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ma.la.myt də l‿a.las.ka\ |
| Letters | 20 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “malamute de l’Alaska” sits in French frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for malamute de l’Alaska is 20 letters long, classified as a noun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \ma.la.myt də l‿a.las.ka\. It sits outside the most-frequent rank tiers, which is often why uncommon words generate more spelling variants per reader. The dominant gloss from Wiktionary reads: "Race de chien de traîneau de type spitz, originaire de l’Alaska, massif, au poil épais et rude, à robe bicolore.".
No misspelling variants are generated for malamute de l’Alaska in our index, suggesting the orthography follows predictable French patterns. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
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 malamute de l’Alaska, spelled M-A-L-A-M-U-T-E- -D-E- -L-’-A-L-A-S-K-A, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Race de chien de traîneau de type spitz, originaire de l’Alaska, massif, au poil épais et rude, à robe bicolore.
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- The one correct French spelling is M-A-L-A-M-U-T-E- -D-E- -L-’-A-L-A-S-K-A - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
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