malinké
\ma.lin.ke\
The verdict
“malinké” is uncommon French (frequency #80,397 among 5,038 “M” headwords), classed as an adjective. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #80,397
- frequency rank, French
- 5,038
- “M” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Relatif aux Malinkés, peuple d’Afrique de l’Ouest, et à leur culture.
Corpus desk
Index FR-malinke · malinké · French
malinké · rank #80,397 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #80,397
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,038
- PHOTO-FINISH magouilleur
Nearest frequency peer: magouilleur (-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 « malinké »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- macronisme
macronisme
19,608 corpus weight
- magnanimité
magnanimité
19,606 corpus weight
- magouilleur
magouilleur
19,605 corpus weight
- malinké
malinké
19,604 corpus weight
- malvenue
malvenue
19,603 corpus weight
- Manceaux
Manceaux
19,602 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « malinké » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | malinké |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | \ma.lin.ke\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #80,397 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « malinké » en français
Rare enough to double-check
malinké is uncommon French at frequency #80,397 among 5,038 “M” headwords, classed as anadjective, transcribed \ma.lin.ke\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Relatif aux Malinkés, peuple d’Afrique de l’Ouest, et à leur culture.".
malinké has no tracked misspelling variants, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. Our dataset records no confusable match here, a sign it's visually distinctive enough not to be mixed up with another word.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so its spelling pattern is best understood through pronunciation rather than a traceable origin. The correct French form is malinké, spelled M-A-L-I-N-K-É.
Definition
- 1Relatif aux Malinkés, peuple d’Afrique de l’Ouest, et à leur culture.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how malinké appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
L’une possède des scarifications superbes, un corps élancé, un visage en forme de cœur. C’est une statuette malinké (Guinée) d’une grande élégance, qui semble incarner la fierté de tout son peuple.
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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