Malachie
\ma.la.ʃi\
The verdict
“Malachie” is uncommon French (frequency #77,685 among 5,038 “M” headwords), classed as a proper noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #77,685
- frequency rank, French
- 5,038
- “M” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Nom du quarante-sixième et ultime livre de l’Ancien Testament, comprenant quatre chapitres.
Corpus desk
Index FR-malachie · Malachie · French
Malachie · rank #77,685 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #77,685
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,038
- PHOTO-FINISH malbec
Nearest frequency peer: malbec (+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 « Malachie »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- lèverait
lèverait
22,320 corpus weight
- légats
légats
22,318 corpus weight
- Malachie
Malachie
22,316 corpus weight
- malbec
malbec
22,315 corpus weight
- malléables
malléables
22,314 corpus weight
- malwares
malwares
22,313 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « Malachie » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Malachie |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| IPA | \ma.la.ʃi\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #77,685 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « Malachie » en français
Rare enough to double-check
Malachie is uncommon French at frequency #77,685 among 5,038 “M” headwords, classed as aproper noun, transcribed \ma.la.ʃi\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
Malachie 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, since no other headword is close enough in sound or shape to pair with it.
This entry carries no recorded etymology, so its spelling is best read as a straightforward mapping from sound to letter. The correct French form is Malachie, spelled M-A-L-A-C-H-I-E.
Definition
- 1Nom du quarante-sixième et ultime livre de l’Ancien Testament, comprenant quatre chapitres.
- 2Le dernier des prophètes mineurs de l’Ancien Testament.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how Malachie appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Fénelon si tendre, presque newmanien dans ce qu’il a de meilleur, et tout à coup prophète, et prophète aussi dur qu’Amos ou Malachie.
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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