maline

/\ma.lin\/ noun

Letters

6 characters

Frequency Rank

#46,280

in French word usage

Misspellings

7

tracked variants

Confusables

20

similar word pairs

maline is aFrenchnoun. It means: 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. Pronounced \ma.lin\. Often confused with mine and mane.

Key facts for maline
PropertyValue
Headwordmaline
LanguageFrench
Part of speechNoun
IPA\ma.lin\
Letters6
Frequency rank#46,280
Misspellings tracked7
Confusable pairs20
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Frequency rank visualization

Position of maline in French word frequency (lower rank = more common)

Source: Wordfreq corpus

Spelling & Dictionary Insight

The French entry for maline is 6 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \ma.lin\. Corpus data places it at rank #46,280 in overall French word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it.The dominant gloss from Wiktionary reads: "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 Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 7 documented wrong-spelling variants for maline, with forms such as "amline", "mailne", and "malinne". Each variant represents a distinct typo pattern that appears often enough in corpora to be worth flagging, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution.It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "mine", "mane", "matin", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.

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. For readers arriving here from a spelling check, the authoritative guidance is: the correct French form is maline, spelled M-A-L-I-N-E, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.

Definition

  1. 1
    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.

Common misspellings

Also misspelled as: amline,mailne,malinne,malline,malnie,mlaine,mmaline

Misspelling Pattern Breakdown

Relative frequency of common misspelling types for maline

Misspelling Variants of "maline"

amline6mailne6malinne7malline7malnie6mlaine6mmaline7
Misspelling Variants of "maline"

Frequency rank: #46,280 in French

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "maline"?
"maline" is spelled M-A-L-I-N-E. The IPA pronunciation is \ma.lin\.
What does "maline" mean?
As a noun, "maline" means: 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.
What words are commonly confused with "maline"?
"maline" is commonly confused with "mine", "mane", "matin". These words look or sound similar but have different meanings. PlainSpell provides detailed comparisons for each pair.
How do you pronounce "maline"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "maline" is \ma.lin\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "maline" come from?
"maline" is a French word. PlainSpell covers definitions, pronunciations, and spelling data across English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, and German.
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Data Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Frequency data from Wordfreq. Misspellings derived from Hunspell dictionaries.