malgache
\mal.ɡaʃ\
The verdict
“malgache” has 12 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #15,432. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #15,432
- frequency rank, French
- 5,038
- “M” headwords
- 12
- tracked misspellings
- 1
- confusable pair
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Relatif à Madagascar, aux Malgaches.
Corpus desk
Index FR-malgache · malgache · French
malgache · rank #15,432 · 12 variants · 1 confusable
- FREQ-MID #15,432
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-LOW 1 pairs
- VAR-MID 12 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,038
- PHOTO-FINISH malik
Nearest frequency peer: malik (+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 « malgache »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- lg
lg
84,572 corpus weight
- lost
lost
84,571 corpus weight
- malgache
malgache
84,569 corpus weight
- malik
malik
84,568 corpus weight
- maquette
maquette
84,567 corpus weight
- marraine
marraine
84,566 corpus weight
What this shows « malgache » 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 | malgache |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | \mal.ɡaʃ\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #15,432 |
| Misspellings tracked | 12 |
| Confusable pairs | 1 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « malgache »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 12 spelling variants around malgache (IPA \mal.ɡaʃ\), anadjective. Corpus frequency is #15,432 among 5,038 “M” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Relatif à Madagascar, aux Malgaches.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 12 likely wrong-spelling variants for malgache, with forms such as "amlgache", "maglache", and "malagche". 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 1 confusable-pair relationship, "Malgaches", since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, 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 malgache, spelled M-A-L-G-A-C-H-E.
Definition
- 1Relatif à Madagascar, aux Malgaches.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how malgache appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Les cieux malgaches sont fréquentés par près de 294 espèces d’oiseaux, dont 107 sont endémiques.
Ainsi la géologie ancienne voudrait que l’on fît un groupe indo-malgache et un groupe africano-brésilien.
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- amlgache
- maglache
- malagche
- malgacche
- malgaceh
- malgachhe
- malgahce
- malgcahe
- malggache
- mallgache
- mlagache
- mmalgache
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of malgache - 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
Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "malgache", not the corpus desk frequency band.
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).