malien
\ma.ljɛ̃\
The verdict
“malien” has 7 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #16,177. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #16,177
- frequency rank, French
- 5,038
- “M” headwords
- 7
- tracked misspellings
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Qui se rapporte au Mali, à ses habitants.
Corpus desk
Index FR-malien · malien · French
malien · rank #16,177 · 7 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-MID #16,177
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-MID 7 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,038
- PHOTO-FINISH malentendu
Nearest frequency peer: malentendu (-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 « malien »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- Maggie
Maggie
83,827 corpus weight
- maintiennent
maintiennent
83,826 corpus weight
- malentendu
malentendu
83,825 corpus weight
- malien
malien
83,824 corpus weight
- mariées
mariées
83,823 corpus weight
- martiaux
martiaux
83,822 corpus weight
What this shows « malien » 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 | malien |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | \ma.ljɛ̃\ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #16,177 |
| Misspellings tracked | 7 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « malien »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 7 spelling variants around malien (IPA \ma.ljɛ̃\), anadjective. Corpus frequency is #16,177 among 5,038 “M” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Qui se rapporte au Mali, à ses habitants.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 7 likely wrong-spelling variants for malien, with forms such as "amlien", "mailen", and "malein". 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 20 confusable-pair relationships, "mien", "matin", "marin", and more, a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, so its spelling is best explained by sound-to-letter mapping rather than etymology. The correct French form is malien, spelled M-A-L-I-E-N.
Definition
- 1Qui se rapporte au Mali, à ses habitants.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how malien appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Le 5 mai, impasse de la Statue, des éboueurs d’origine malienne trouvèrent parmi les poubelles de ce beau quartier, le corps de Girolamo Venezia, lui-même d’origine italienne.
Si ça lui chantait, et ça lui chantait, et ça lui chantait souvent, il pouvait être turc, chinois, berbère, pourquoi pas si ça lui plaisait, indonésien, malien, fuégien, que celui qui n’était pas d’accord le dise, sicilien, irlandais, ou, évidemment, français, ou allemand.
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- amlien
- mailen
- malein
- malienn
- mallien
- mlaien
- mmalien
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of malien - 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 6 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (7 here; floor ≥5).