malachite
\ma.la.kit\
The verdict
“malachite” is uncommon French (frequency #73,331 among 5,038 “M” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #73,331
- frequency rank, French
- 5,038
- “M” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Espèce minérale du groupe des carbonates et du sous-groupe des carbonates anhydres avec anions étrangers de formule Cu₂(CO₃)(OH)₂, susceptible de recevoir un beau poli et employée pour la fabricati...
Corpus desk
Index FR-malachite · malachite · French
malachite · rank #73,331 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #73,331
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,038
- PHOTO-FINISH makis
Nearest frequency peer: makis (-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 « malachite »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- Maguelone
Maguelone
26,673 corpus weight
- makis
makis
26,671 corpus weight
- malachite
malachite
26,670 corpus weight
- Malartic
Malartic
26,669 corpus weight
- mancha
mancha
26,668 corpus weight
- mandate
mandate
26,667 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « malachite » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | malachite |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ma.la.kit\ |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #73,331 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « malachite » en français
Rare enough to double-check
malachite is uncommon French at frequency #73,331 among 5,038 “M” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \ma.la.kit\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Espèce minérale du groupe des carbonates et du sous-groupe des carbonates anhydres avec anions étrangers de formule Cu₂(CO₃)(OH)₂, susceptible de recevoir un beau poli et employée pour la fabricati...".
We couldn't generate a plausible misspelling set for malachite, a straightforward case of a spelling with little room for common typos. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, which typically means the spelling is too distinctive to be mistaken for another word.
No documented word history exists for this headword, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct French form is malachite, spelled M-A-L-A-C-H-I-T-E.
Definition
- 1Espèce minérale du groupe des carbonates et du sous-groupe des carbonates anhydres avec anions étrangers de formule Cu₂(CO₃)(OH)₂, susceptible de recevoir un beau poli et employée pour la fabrication d’objets d’ornement.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how malachite appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Le pauvre amant, pour subvenir aux frais de cette boite qui devait être en malachite, avait fait pour Florent et Chanor deux torchères, en leur en abandonnant la propriété, deux chefs-d’œuvre.
Il avait laissé tomber à ses pieds le couteau de malachite enrichi d’or dont il s’était servi pour couper les feuillets d’un livre.
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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