smala
\sma.la\
The verdict
“smala” is uncommon French (frequency #76,134 among 6,032 “S” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #76,134
- frequency rank, French
- 6,032
- “S” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Réunion de tentes abritant des familles et les équipages d’un chef de clan arabe qui l’accompagnent lors de ses déplacements.
Corpus desk
Index FR-smala · smala · French
smala · rank #76,134 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #76,134
- LEN-MID 5 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,032
- PHOTO-FINISH Sobieski
Nearest frequency peer: Sobieski (+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 « smala »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- signore
signore
23,871 corpus weight
- singing
singing
23,870 corpus weight
- smala
smala
23,867 corpus weight
- Sobieski
Sobieski
23,866 corpus weight
- soe
soe
23,865 corpus weight
- sollicita
sollicita
23,863 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « smala » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | smala |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \sma.la\ |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #76,134 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « smala » en français
Rare enough to double-check
smala is uncommon French at frequency #76,134 among 6,032 “S” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \sma.la\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
smala has no tracked misspelling variants, which points to an orthography that plays by predictable French rules. Our confusable-pair dataset has no match for it, suggesting its spelling stands apart enough that readers rarely confuse it with something else.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, so its spelling is easiest explained by how it's pronounced rather than where it came from. The correct French form is smala, spelled S-M-A-L-A.
Definition
- 1Réunion de tentes abritant des familles et les équipages d’un chef de clan arabe qui l’accompagnent lors de ses déplacements.
- 2Famille, suite nombreuse, groupe nombreux.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how smala appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Si les pirates sahariens en font leur objectif majeur, il arrive aussi que les soldats français en fassent leur butin, à leur corps défendant, et certaines poursuites contre des auteurs de rezzous se soldent par des captures étonnantes qui ne sont pas sans rappeler la « prise de la smala d’Abd el-Kader » par le duc d’Aumale (1843).
La calèche attendait à la gare ; nous nous sommes lavés, nous avons déjeuné et à deux heures nous sommes partis par le lac de Genève sur le bateau à vapeur, le Léman ; un petit bout de chemin de fer nous a menés à Bex où nous avons trouvé à la gare Carlotta et sa petite smala.
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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