# Malpas

> English word · Proper noun · frequency rank #88,575

## Definitions
1. A small market town and civil parish in Cheshire West and Chester borough, Cheshire, England (OS grid ref SJ4847).
2. A village on the Truro River in St Clement parish, Cornwall, England (OS grid ref SW8442).
3. A suburb and community in Newport, Wales (OS grid ref ST3090).
4. A commune in Doubs department, Bourgogne-Franche-Comté, France.
5. A habitational surname from Old French.

## Etymology
From Old French mal (“bad”) + pas (“passage”), because of the difficulty of the terrain.

## Source
Compiled from Wiktionary via kaikki.org (CC BY-SA). Data vintage: 2026-05-06.
Canonical page: https://plainspell.com/en/word/malpas