Maldives
\mal.div\
The verdict
“Maldives” has 12 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #21,384. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #21,384
- frequency rank, French
- 5,038
- “M” headwords
- 12
- tracked misspellings
- 5
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Archipel situé à environ 450 km au sud du Deccan.
Corpus desk
Index FR-maldives · Maldives · French
Maldives · rank #21,384 · 12 variants · 5 confusables
- FREQ-MID #21,384
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 5 pairs
- VAR-MID 12 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,038
- PHOTO-FINISH majestueux
Nearest frequency peer: majestueux (-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 « Maldives »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- lunes
lunes
78,620 corpus weight
- mages
mages
78,619 corpus weight
- majestueux
majestueux
78,618 corpus weight
- Maldives
Maldives
78,617 corpus weight
- male
male
78,616 corpus weight
- manifs
manifs
78,615 corpus weight
What this shows « Maldives » 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 | Maldives |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| IPA | \mal.div\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #21,384 |
| Misspellings tracked | 12 |
| Confusable pairs | 5 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « Maldives »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 12 spelling variants around Maldives (IPA \mal.div\), aproper noun. Corpus frequency is #21,384 among 5,038 “M” headwords. Wiktionary lists 2 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 12 likely wrong-spelling variants for Maldives, with forms such as "amldives", "madlives", and "malddives". Each of these forms differs from the correct spelling by one small edit: a doubled letter, a dropped silent letter, or a substituted vowel. It also participates in 5 confusable-pair relationships, "malines", "massives", "maudites", and more, a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.
This entry carries no recorded etymology, so any spelling logic here comes from how the word's sounds map to letters, not a documented origin story. The correct French form is Maldives, spelled M-A-L-D-I-V-E-S.
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.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how Maldives appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Le Portugais soutient que cette île est une Maldive, le capitaine prétend qu’il a tort, attendu qu’ils ne sont en ce moment qu’à [un] demi-degré sud, tandis que les Maldives, selon lui, s’étendent depuis le 7ᵉ jusqu’au 13ᵉ degré.
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- amldives
- madlives
- malddives
- maldievs
- maldivess
- maldivse
- maldivves
- maldvies
- malidves
- malldives
- mladives
- mmaldives
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of Maldives - measured in single-character edits (insert, delete, or substitute a letter). Larger bars are easier to catch; one-edit slips are the sneakiest.
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 8 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (12 here; floor ≥5).