mal aimable
\mal ɛ.mabl\
The verdict
“mal aimable” is outside the top-ranked French vocabulary, used as an adjective - the kind of word writers most often double-check.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency French
- 11
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - D'un commerce désagréable ; impoli.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | mal aimable |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | \mal ɛ.mabl\ |
| Letters | 11 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “mal aimable” sits in French frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for mal aimable is 11 letters long, classified as an adjective, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \mal ɛ.mabl\. It sits outside the most-frequent rank tiers, which is often why uncommon words generate more spelling variants per reader. The dominant gloss from Wiktionary reads: "D'un commerce désagréable ; impoli.".
No misspelling variants are generated for mal aimable in our index, suggesting the orthography follows predictable French patterns. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. For readers arriving here from a spelling check, the authoritative guidance is: the correct French form is mal aimable, spelled M-A-L- -A-I-M-A-B-L-E, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1D'un commerce désagréable ; impoli.
Definitions, pronunciation, and etymology for this entry are drawn from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org structured extract (CC BY-SA). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.
Cite this page
Free to reuse with attribution (CC BY-SA). Copy the citation:
PlainSpell, “mal aimable, French word data” (May 6, 2026). Derived from Wiktionary (kaikki.org, CC BY-SA) and an open word-frequency list. https://plainspell.com/fr/mot/mal-aimable
Frequently Asked Questions
How do you spell "mal aimable"?
What does "mal aimable" mean?
How do you pronounce "mal aimable"?
What language does "mal aimable" come from?
Is PlainSpell free to use?
Using “mal aimable”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct French spelling is M-A-L- -A-I-M-A-B-L-E - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
- Say it as \mal ɛ.mabl\ (IPA); tap the speaker on the pronunciation badge to hear it where audio exists.
- Browse more French words and confusable pairs in the same reference. French words
Nearby French words
Other entries that begin with the letter M in our French index: