maltese
\mal.ˈte.se\
The verdict
“maltese” is uncommon French (frequency #75,875 among 5,038 “M” headwords), classed as an adjective. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #75,875
- frequency rank, French
- 5,038
- “M” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Qui a un rapport avec Malte ou ses habitants : maltais, maltaise.
Corpus desk
Index FR-maltese · maltese · French
maltese · rank #75,875 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #75,875
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,038
- PHOTO-FINISH Malvina
Nearest frequency peer: Malvina (+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 « maltese »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- Macht
Macht
24,129 corpus weight
- mailer
mailer
24,128 corpus weight
- maltese
maltese
24,126 corpus weight
- Malvina
Malvina
24,125 corpus weight
- mamou
mamou
24,124 corpus weight
- mandibulaire
mandibulaire
24,123 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « maltese » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | maltese |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | \mal.ˈte.se\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #75,875 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « maltese » en français
Rare enough to double-check
maltese is uncommon French at frequency #75,875 among 5,038 “M” headwords, classed as anadjective, transcribed \mal.ˈte.se\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Qui a un rapport avec Malte ou ses habitants : maltais, maltaise.".
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for maltese, which points to an orthography that plays by predictable French rules. Our dataset records no confusable match here, which usually means its spelling is distinct enough that readers don't reach for a similar-looking word instead.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, so its spelling pattern is best understood through pronunciation rather than a traceable origin. The correct French form is maltese, spelled M-A-L-T-E-S-E.
Definition
- 1Qui a un rapport avec Malte ou ses habitants : maltais, maltaise.
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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