maline
\ma.lin\
The verdict
“maline” has 7 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #46,280. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #46,280
- frequency rank, French
- 5,038
- “M” headwords
- 7
- tracked misspellings
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Grandes marées qui ont lieu à la nouvelle et à la pleine lune, et dont les plus considérables arrivent aux équinoxes. On l’emploie surtout au pluriel.
Corpus desk
Index FR-maline · maline · French
maline · rank #46,280 · 7 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-MID #46,280
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-MID 7 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,038
- PHOTO-FINISH majestic
Nearest frequency peer: majestic (-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 « maline »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- magnan
magnan
53,724 corpus weight
- magnolia
magnolia
53,723 corpus weight
- majestic
majestic
53,722 corpus weight
- maline
maline
53,721 corpus weight
- malles
malles
53,720 corpus weight
- maltraitée
maltraitée
53,719 corpus weight
What this shows « maline » 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 | maline |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ma.lin\ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #46,280 |
| Misspellings tracked | 7 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « maline »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 7 spelling variants around maline (IPA \ma.lin\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #46,280 among 5,038 “M” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Grandes marées qui ont lieu à la nouvelle et à la pleine lune, et dont les plus considérables arrivent aux équinoxes. On l’emploie surtout au pluriel.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 7 likely wrong-spelling variants for maline, with forms such as "amline", "mailne", and "malinne". 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, "mine", "mane", "matin", and more, since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
Our source data has no etymology on file for this entry, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct French form is maline, spelled M-A-L-I-N-E.
Definition
- 1Grandes marées qui ont lieu à la nouvelle et à la pleine lune, et dont les plus considérables arrivent aux équinoxes. On l’emploie surtout au pluriel.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how maline appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
À l’époque des grandes malines.
Le temps était radieux. Les grandes malines venaient de commencer, et la mer, en se retirant très loin, découvrait des bancs de sable vierge, des rochers que les estivants ne soupçonnaient pas, où on voyait les femmes du pays ramasser des huîtres.
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- amline
- mailne
- malinne
- malline
- malnie
- mlaine
- mmaline
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of maline - 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).