malia
\ma.ˈli.a\
The verdict
“malia” is uncommon French (frequency #50,345 among 5,038 “M” headwords), classed as an adjective. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #50,345
- frequency rank, French
- 5,038
- “M” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Malien.
Corpus desk
Index FR-malia · malia · French
malia · rank #50,345 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #50,345
- LEN-MID 5 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,038
- PHOTO-FINISH Makoto
Nearest frequency peer: Makoto (-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 « malia »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- macaque
macaque
49,660 corpus weight
- magistrate
magistrate
49,659 corpus weight
- Makoto
Makoto
49,657 corpus weight
- malia
malia
49,656 corpus weight
- mandala
mandala
49,655 corpus weight
- manoirs
manoirs
49,654 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « malia » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | malia |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | \ma.ˈli.a\ |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #50,345 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « malia » en français
Rare enough to double-check
malia is uncommon French at frequency #50,345 among 5,038 “M” headwords, classed as anadjective, transcribed \ma.ˈli.a\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Malien.".
malia doesn't appear in our generated misspelling index, typically a sign the spelling maps closely to how the word sounds. This headword has no recorded confusable partner, since its spelling is unusual enough that it doesn't cluster with a lookalike.
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. The correct French form is malia, spelled M-A-L-I-A.
Definition
- 1Malien.
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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