maladresse
\ma.la.dʁɛs\
The verdict
“maladresse” has 13 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #20,189. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #20,189
- frequency rank, French
- 5,038
- “M” headwords
- 13
- tracked misspellings
- 1
- confusable pair
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Défaut d’adresse.
Corpus desk
Index FR-maladresse · maladresse · French
maladresse · rank #20,189 · 13 variants · 1 confusable
- FREQ-MID #20,189
- LEN-MEGA 10 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-LOW 1 pairs
- VAR-HIGH 13 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,038
- PHOTO-FINISH magnus
Nearest frequency peer: magnus (-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.
Pairs de rang près de l'aimant d'erreurs « maladresse »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- louable
louable
79,815 corpus weight
- maghrébine
maghrébine
79,814 corpus weight
- magnus
magnus
79,813 corpus weight
- maladresse
maladresse
79,812 corpus weight
- maladroite
maladroite
79,811 corpus weight
- manquement
manquement
79,810 corpus weight
What this shows « maladresse » siège parmi ces pairs FrequencyWords; la profondeur des fautes est suivie à part dans le graphique d'édition.
Visual similarity to commonly confused words
How many letter changes separate each confused pair (Levenshtein distance, normalized).
Source: PlainSpell confusable corpus (Wiktionary, CC BY-SA).
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | maladresse |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ma.la.dʁɛs\ |
| Letters | 10 |
| Frequency rank | #20,189 |
| Misspellings tracked | 13 |
| Confusable pairs | 1 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « maladresse »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 13 spelling variants around maladresse (IPA \ma.la.dʁɛs\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #20,189 among 5,038 “M” headwords. Wiktionary lists 2 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 13 likely wrong-spelling variants for maladresse, with forms such as "amladresse", "maaldresse", and "maladdresse". Each variant is a distinct typo pattern an edit-distance generator flags, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution. It also participates in 1 confusable-pair relationship, "maladresses", since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, so its spelling is best read as a straightforward mapping from sound to letter. The correct French form is maladresse, spelled M-A-L-A-D-R-E-S-S-E.
Definition
- 1Défaut d’adresse.
- 2Manque de savoir-faire ou manque d'habileté à bien faire.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how maladresse appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Cette personne est d’une si grande maladresse qu’elle ne peut toucher à rien sans le briser.
[…], il devenait taciturne, maussade, ne répondait qu’avec difficulté aux questions qu’elle lui adressait et avec cette maladresse habituelle aux amoureux peu aguerris, il saisissait le premier prétexte venu pour la quitter.
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- amladresse
- maaldresse
- maladdresse
- maladersse
- maladrese
- maladreses
- maladrresse
- maladrsese
- malardesse
- maldaresse
- malladresse
- mlaadresse
- mmaladresse
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of maladresse - counted as single-character edits (an insertion, a deletion, or a substituted letter). The larger the bar, the easier the typo is to spot; one-edit slips are the ones that sneak past readers.
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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Similar French words by spelling shape
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Same letter count
Frequency-ranked French headwords with 10 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (13 here; floor ≥5).