Malvina
\mal.vi.na\
The verdict
“Malvina” is uncommon French (frequency #75,876 among 5,038 “M” headwords), classed as a proper noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #75,876
- frequency rank, French
- 5,038
- “M” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Prénom féminin d’origine anglo-saxonne et gaélique.
Corpus desk
Index FR-malvina · Malvina · French
Malvina · rank #75,876 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #75,876
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,038
- PHOTO-FINISH maltese
Nearest frequency peer: maltese (-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 « Malvina »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- 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
- mandingue
mandingue
24,122 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « Malvina » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Malvina |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| IPA | \mal.vi.na\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #75,876 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « Malvina » en français
Rare enough to double-check
Malvina is uncommon French at frequency #75,876 among 5,038 “M” headwords, classed as aproper noun, transcribed \mal.vi.na\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Prénom féminin d’origine anglo-saxonne et gaélique.".
No generated misspelling entries exist for Malvina in our index, which points to an orthography that plays by predictable French rules. This headword has no recorded confusable partner, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
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 Malvina, spelled M-A-L-V-I-N-A.
Definition
- 1Prénom féminin d’origine anglo-saxonne et gaélique.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how Malvina appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Godefroid vit alors sa beauté de ballade allemande entraînant sa mère fantastique dans le salon de partance, où ces deux dames furent suivies par Malvina.
Oscar et Malvina devinrent le sommet de la branchitude consulaire !
This word in other languages
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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