malo
\ma.lo\
The verdict
“malo” has 5 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #12,191. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #12,191
- frequency rank, French
- 5,038
- “M” headwords
- 5
- tracked misspellings
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Langue océanienne parlée dans l’île de Malo, au Vanuatu.
Corpus desk
Index FR-malo · malo · French
malo · rank #12,191 · 5 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-MID #12,191
- LEN-MID 4 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-MID 5 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,038
- PHOTO-FINISH magic
Nearest frequency peer: magic (-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.
Pairs de rang près de l'aimant d'erreurs « malo »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- lola
lola
87,813 corpus weight
- Louvain
Louvain
87,812 corpus weight
- magic
magic
87,811 corpus weight
- malo
malo
87,810 corpus weight
- Malte
Malte
87,809 corpus weight
- malédiction
malédiction
87,808 corpus weight
What this shows « malo » siège parmi ces pairs FrequencyWords; la profondeur des fautes est suivie à part dans le graphique d'édition.
Visual similarity to commonly confused words
How many letter changes separate each confused pair (Levenshtein distance, normalized).
Source: PlainSpell confusable corpus (Wiktionary, CC BY-SA).
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | malo |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ma.lo\ |
| Letters | 4 |
| Frequency rank | #12,191 |
| Misspellings tracked | 5 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « malo »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 5 spelling variants around malo (IPA \ma.lo\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #12,191 among 5,038 “M” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Langue océanienne parlée dans l’île de Malo, au Vanuatu.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 5 likely wrong-spelling variants for malo, with forms such as "amlo", "mallo", and "maol". Each variant is a distinct typo pattern an edit-distance generator flags, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution. It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "Mo", "ML", "max", and more, a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.
No borrowing history is documented for this entry, so its spelling is easiest explained by how it's pronounced rather than where it came from. The correct French form is malo, spelled M-A-L-O.
Definition
- 1Langue océanienne parlée dans l’île de Malo, au Vanuatu.
Synonyms
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- amlo
- mallo
- maol
- mlao
- mmalo
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of malo - counted as single-character edits (an insertion, a deletion, or a substituted letter). The larger the bar, the easier the typo is to spot; one-edit slips are the ones that sneak past readers.
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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Similar French words by spelling shape
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Same letter count
Frequency-ranked French headwords with 4 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (5 here; floor ≥5).