Malte
\malt\
The verdict
“Malte” has 7 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #12,192. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #12,192
- frequency rank, French
- 5,038
- “M” headwords
- 7
- tracked misspellings
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - État européen insulaire situé entre la Sicile et l’Afrique, composé des îles de Malte, de Gozo et de Comino. Sa capitale est La Valette.
Corpus desk
Index FR-malte · Malte · French
Malte · rank #12,192 · 7 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-MID #12,192
- LEN-MID 5 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-MID 7 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,038
- PHOTO-FINISH malo
Nearest frequency peer: malo (-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 « Malte »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- 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
- manœuvres
manœuvres
87,807 corpus weight
What this shows « Malte » 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 | Malte |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| IPA | \malt\ |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #12,192 |
| Misspellings tracked | 7 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « Malte »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 7 spelling variants around Malte (IPA \malt\), aproper noun. Corpus frequency is #12,192 among 5,038 “M” headwords. Wiktionary lists 2 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 7 likely wrong-spelling variants for Malte, with forms such as "amlte", "malet", and "mallte". 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, "mat", "mle", "matt", and more, since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
No borrowing history is documented for this entry, so its spelling is best explained by sound-to-letter mapping rather than etymology. The correct French form is Malte, spelled M-A-L-T-E.
Definition
- 1État européen insulaire situé entre la Sicile et l’Afrique, composé des îles de Malte, de Gozo et de Comino. Sa capitale est La Valette.
- 2Principale île de cet État.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how Malte appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Malte était debout avec ses forts, ses canons à fleur d’eau, ses longues murailles luisantes au soleil comme des marbres nouvellement polis, et sa fourmilière de galères toutes minces courant sur de longues rames rouges.
Autant que je sache, ici à Malte occasionnellement, on peut encore voir cette coutume lors de la fête des Saint Jean, les feux de la Saint Jean.
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- amlte
- malet
- mallte
- maltte
- matle
- mlate
- mmalte
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of Malte - 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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Frequency-ranked French headwords with 5 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (7 here; floor ≥5).