Malheur
[maˈløːɐ̯]
The verdict
“Malheur” is uncommon German (frequency #56,332 among 3,571 “M” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #56,332
- frequency rank, German
- 3,571
- “M” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Unglücksfall, (peinliches) Missgeschick, Unfall, Pech (immer in Verbindung mit einem Ereignis)
Corpus desk
Index DE-malheur · Malheur · German
Malheur · rank #56,332 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #56,332
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,571
- PHOTO-FINISH markiere
Nearest frequency peer: markiere (+2 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.
Langschwanz-Ränge nahe „Malheur“
Dünnes Band: Balken invertieren den Rang, seltenere Formen wirken kürzer
- ly
ly
43,675 corpus weight
- Lübbenau
Lübbenau
43,672 corpus weight
- Malheur
Malheur
43,669 corpus weight
- markiere
markiere
43,667 corpus weight
- Martinskirc…
Martinskirche
43,666 corpus weight
- mech
mech
43,663 corpus weight
What this shows Langschwanz-Sicht: wo „Malheur“ gegen ähnlich seltene deutsche Ränge sitzt.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Malheur |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [maˈløːɐ̯] |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #56,332 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Langschwanz-Rang von „Malheur“ im Deutschen
Rare enough to double-check
Malheur is uncommon German at frequency #56,332 among 3,571 “M” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed [maˈløːɐ̯]. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Unglücksfall, (peinliches) Missgeschick, Unfall, Pech (immer in Verbindung mit einem Ereignis)".
Malheur doesn't appear in our generated misspelling index, since its letter pattern doesn't lend itself to common typo substitutions. Our confusable-pair dataset has no match for it, a sign it's visually distinctive enough not to be mixed up with another word.
Our source data has no etymology on file for this entry, so any spelling logic here comes from how the word's sounds map to letters, not a documented origin story. The correct German form is Malheur, spelled M-A-L-H-E-U-R.
Definition
- 1Unglücksfall, (peinliches) Missgeschick, Unfall, Pech (immer in Verbindung mit einem Ereignis)
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how Malheur appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Mir ist letztens ein Malheur passiert.
„Vielleicht besänftigte es sie, dass das Malheur in unmittelbarer Nähe der königlichen Familie geschehen war.“
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Antonyms
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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 German corpus, MIT). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.
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