Malmedy
\mal.mə.di\
The verdict
“Malmedy” is uncommon French (frequency #79,509 among 5,038 “M” headwords), classed as a proper noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #79,509
- frequency rank, French
- 5,038
- “M” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Commune de la province de Liège de la région wallonne de Belgique.
Corpus desk
Index FR-malmedy · Malmedy · French
Malmedy · rank #79,509 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #79,509
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,038
- PHOTO-FINISH majorées
Nearest frequency peer: majorées (-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 « Malmedy »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- Maguy
Maguy
20,495 corpus weight
- maintiendro…
maintiendront
20,494 corpus weight
- majorées
majorées
20,493 corpus weight
- Malmedy
Malmedy
20,492 corpus weight
- mamet
mamet
20,491 corpus weight
- mangeoires
mangeoires
20,490 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « Malmedy » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Malmedy |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| IPA | \mal.mə.di\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #79,509 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « Malmedy » en français
Rare enough to double-check
Malmedy is uncommon French at frequency #79,509 among 5,038 “M” headwords, classed as aproper noun, transcribed \mal.mə.di\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Commune de la province de Liège de la région wallonne de Belgique.".
No misspelling variants are generated for Malmedy in our index, since its letter sequence doesn't invite the usual edit-distance slips. Our dataset records no confusable match here, a sign it's visually distinctive enough not to be mixed up with another word.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, so any spelling logic here comes from how the word's sounds map to letters, not a documented origin story. The correct French form is Malmedy, spelled M-A-L-M-E-D-Y.
Definition
- 1Commune de la province de Liège de la région wallonne de Belgique.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how Malmedy appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Le fait qui étonne le plus lorsque lʼon aborde lʼétude des manuscrits de Stavelot et de Malmedy aux XIᵉ et XIIᵉ siècles, est leur manque d’unité.
Les Belges préparent aussi, pour le plus grand bonheur des gourmands, une variété infinie de pâtisseries, dont nombre n'existent qu'en région : le baiser de Malmedy, le mokken à Gand...
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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