Malaurie
The verdict
“Malaurie” is uncommon French (frequency #87,826 among 5,038 “M” headwords), classed as a proper noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #87,826
- frequency rank, French
- 5,038
- “M” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Nom de famille.
Corpus desk
Index FR-malaurie · Malaurie · French
Malaurie · rank #87,826 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #87,826
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-5 5 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,038
- PHOTO-FINISH Mallorca
Nearest frequency peer: Mallorca (+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 « Malaurie »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- Magnard
Magnard
12,180 corpus weight
- mahométans
mahométans
12,178 corpus weight
- Malaurie
Malaurie
12,175 corpus weight
- Mallorca
Mallorca
12,174 corpus weight
- Maritima
Maritima
12,171 corpus weight
- martelli
martelli
12,170 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « Malaurie » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Malaurie |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #87,826 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « Malaurie » en français
Rare enough to double-check
Malaurie is uncommon French at frequency #87,826 among 5,038 “M” headwords, classed as aproper noun. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Nom de famille.".
No generated misspelling entries exist for Malaurie in our index, suggesting the orthography follows predictable French patterns. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable 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 Malaurie, spelled M-A-L-A-U-R-I-E.
Definition
- 1Nom de famille.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how Malaurie appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
En décembre dernier, Jean Malaurie a eu cent ans.
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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