malaria
\ma.la.ʁja\
The verdict
“malaria” has 9 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #30,695. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #30,695
- frequency rank, French
- 5,038
- “M” headwords
- 9
- tracked misspellings
- 7
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Air vicié, pestilence provenant des marécages, qu’on croyait être cause des accès de fièvre dont souffraient périodiquement les habitants de certaines régions.
Corpus desk
Index FR-malaria · malaria · French
malaria · rank #30,695 · 9 variants · 7 confusables
- FREQ-MID #30,695
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 7 pairs
- VAR-MID 9 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,038
- PHOTO-FINISH légionnaires
Nearest frequency peer: légionnaires (-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.
Pairs de rang près de l'aimant d'erreurs « malaria »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- locuteur
locuteur
69,309 corpus weight
- Lun
Lun
69,308 corpus weight
- légionnaires
légionnaires
69,307 corpus weight
- malaria
malaria
69,306 corpus weight
- manquantes
manquantes
69,304 corpus weight
- mares
mares
69,303 corpus weight
What this shows « malaria » siège parmi ces pairs FrequencyWords; la profondeur des fautes est suivie à part dans le graphique d'édition.
Visual similarity to commonly confused words
How many letter changes separate each confused pair (Levenshtein distance, normalized).
Source: PlainSpell confusable corpus (Wiktionary, CC BY-SA).
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | malaria |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ma.la.ʁja\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #30,695 |
| Misspellings tracked | 9 |
| Confusable pairs | 7 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « malaria »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 9 spelling variants around malaria (IPA \ma.la.ʁja\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #30,695 among 5,038 “M” headwords. Wiktionary lists 2 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 9 likely wrong-spelling variants for malaria, with forms such as "amlaria", "maalria", and "malaira". Every one of these variants traces to a single-character edit -- an added or dropped letter, a swapped consonant, or a vowel swap -- the kind of slip a spell-checker is built to catch. It also participates in 7 confusable-pair relationships, "Maria", "Malawi", "mazarin", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
Our source data has no etymology on file for this entry, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct French form is malaria, spelled M-A-L-A-R-I-A.
Definition
- 1Air vicié, pestilence provenant des marécages, qu’on croyait être cause des accès de fièvre dont souffraient périodiquement les habitants de certaines régions.
- 2Paludisme transmis par l’anophèle, qui se manifeste par des accès de fièvre survenant à des intervalles réguliers.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how malaria appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
La mère et la fille semblaient vivre de la même vie et dépérir du même mal. La maison a l’air d’une maison abandonnée ; on y respire un souffle de malaria.
Des tourbillons de moustiques nous enveloppent, et nous respirons cette malaria spéciale qui donne la fièvre des bois.
Synonyms
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- amlaria
- maalria
- malaira
- malarai
- malarria
- mallaria
- malraia
- mlaaria
- mmalaria
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of malaria - counted as single-character edits (an insertion, a deletion, or a substituted letter). The larger the bar, the easier the typo is to spot; one-edit slips are the ones that sneak past readers.
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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Similar French words by spelling shape
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Same letter count
Frequency-ranked French headwords with 7 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (9 here; floor ≥5).