Malinois
\ma.li.nwa\
The verdict
“Malinois” is uncommon French (frequency #55,421 among 5,038 “M” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #55,421
- frequency rank, French
- 5,038
- “M” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Habitant de la ville belge de Malines.
Corpus desk
Index FR-malinois · Malinois · French
Malinois · rank #55,421 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #55,421
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,038
- PHOTO-FINISH males
Nearest frequency peer: males (-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 « Malinois »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- malentendan…
malentendants
44,582 corpus weight
- males
males
44,581 corpus weight
- Malinois
Malinois
44,580 corpus weight
- manifesta
manifesta
44,579 corpus weight
- maoïstes
maoïstes
44,578 corpus weight
- maquisards
maquisards
44,577 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « Malinois » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Malinois |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ma.li.nwa\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #55,421 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « Malinois » en français
Rare enough to double-check
Malinois is uncommon French at frequency #55,421 among 5,038 “M” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \ma.li.nwa\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Habitant de la ville belge de Malines.".
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for Malinois, since its letter sequence doesn't invite the usual edit-distance slips. We don't track a confusable pairing for this entry, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
No borrowing history is documented 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 Malinois, spelled M-A-L-I-N-O-I-S.
Definition
- 1Habitant de la ville belge de Malines.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how Malinois appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Pourtant, avant de se séparer en août 1581, les députés des États s’étaient entendus pour envoyer des représentants de chaque province afin de constituer le landsraat, mais n’arrivèrent à Anvers que quelques Flamands et un Malinois.
This word in other languages
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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