maloya
\ma.lo.ja\
The verdict
“maloya” is uncommon French (frequency #90,910 among 5,038 “M” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #90,910
- frequency rank, French
- 5,038
- “M” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Genre musical et danse issus des anciens chants des esclaves africains.
Corpus desk
Index FR-maloya · maloya · French
maloya · rank #90,910 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #90,910
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,038
- PHOTO-FINISH Malak
Nearest frequency peer: Malak (-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 « maloya »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- Maharashtra
Maharashtra
9,094 corpus weight
- malaisiens
malaisiens
9,093 corpus weight
- Malak
Malak
9,092 corpus weight
- maloya
maloya
9,091 corpus weight
- Manama
Manama
9,090 corpus weight
- mangerons
mangerons
9,089 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « maloya » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | maloya |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ma.lo.ja\ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #90,910 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « maloya » en français
Rare enough to double-check
maloya is uncommon French at frequency #90,910 among 5,038 “M” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \ma.lo.ja\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Genre musical et danse issus des anciens chants des esclaves africains.".
No misspelling variants are generated for maloya in our index, a straightforward case of a spelling with little room for common typos. This headword has no recorded confusable partner, since no other headword is close enough in sound or shape to pair with it.
No explicit etymology string is stored 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 maloya, spelled M-A-L-O-Y-A.
Definition
- 1Genre musical et danse issus des anciens chants des esclaves africains.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how maloya appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
La France est en effet ce pays où, pour la première fois dans l’histoire, l’esclavage a été aboli en 1794, sous la pression des esclaves eux-mêmes. Elle est ce pays où est né le maloya, une musique inventée par les esclaves de la Réunion comme expression artistique de résistance et qui est aujourd’hui inscrite au patrimoine mondial de l’Unesco.
Fabio le rejoignit dans l’habitacle et alluma la radio. Un maloya endiablé s’échappa des enceintes nasillardes. Il monta encore le son.
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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