Maldives
Letters
8 characters
Frequency Rank
#21,384
in French word usage
Misspellings
12
tracked variants
Confusables
5
similar word pairs
Maldives is aFrenchname. It means: Archipel situé à environ 450 km au sud du Deccan. Pronounced \mal.div\. Often confused with malines and massives.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Maldives |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Name |
| IPA | \mal.div\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #21,384 |
| Misspellings tracked | 12 |
| Confusable pairs | 5 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for Maldives is 8 letters long, classified as aname, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \mal.div\. Corpus data places it at rank #21,384 in overall French word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it.Wiktionary records 2 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our generated misspelling index lists 12 likely wrong-spelling variants for Maldives, with forms such as "amldives", "madlives", and "malddives". Each variant is a distinct typo pattern an edit-distance generator flags, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution.It also participates in 5 confusable-pair relationships, "malines", "massives", "maudites", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
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 Maldives, spelled M-A-L-D-I-V-E-S, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Archipel situé à environ 450 km au sud du Deccan.
- 2Pays insulaire de la mer des Laquedives (océan Indien) occupant cet archipel et ayant pour capitale Malé.
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Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: amldives,madlives,malddives,maldievs,maldivess,maldivse,maldivves,maldvies,malidves,malldives,mladives,mmaldives
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
Relative frequency of common misspelling types for Maldives
Misspelling Variants of "Maldives"
Frequency rank: #21,384 in French
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