malle des Indes
\mal.dɛ.zɛ̃d\
The verdict
“malle des Indes” is outside the top-ranked French vocabulary, used as a noun - the kind of word writers most often double-check.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency French
- 15
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - Nom donné à une liaison rapide entre l’empire des Indes britanniques et sa métropole.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | malle des Indes |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \mal.dɛ.zɛ̃d\ |
| Letters | 15 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “malle des Indes” sits in French frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for malle des Indes is 15 letters long, classified as a noun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \mal.dɛ.zɛ̃d\. It sits outside the most-frequent rank tiers, which is often why uncommon words generate more spelling variants per reader. Wiktionary records 2 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
No misspelling variants are generated for malle des Indes in our index, suggesting the orthography follows predictable French patterns. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
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 malle des Indes, spelled M-A-L-L-E- -D-E-S- -I-N-D-E-S, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Nom donné à une liaison rapide entre l’empire des Indes britanniques et sa métropole.
- 2Numéro d’illusion dans lequel un des partenaires est bien enfermé dans un sac, puis dans une malle, puis change de place mystérieusement avec l’autre partenaire.
Definitions, pronunciation, and etymology for this entry are drawn from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org structured extract (CC BY-SA). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.
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- The one correct French spelling is M-A-L-L-E- -D-E-S- -I-N-D-E-S - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
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