malapropisme
\ma.la.pʁo.pism\
The verdict
“malapropisme” is uncommon French (outside the top frequency list), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency French
- 12
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Abus de langage, emploi considéré impropre d’un mot, le plus souvent avec un effet comique involontaire.
Corpus desk
Index FR-malapropisme · malapropisme · French
malapropisme · unranked · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-UNRANKED Unranked
- LEN-MEGA 12 letters
- VOW-5 5 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-THIN "M" thin
- PHOTO-UNK Peer pending
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.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | malapropisme |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ma.la.pʁo.pism\ |
| Letters | 12 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « malapropisme » en français
Rare enough to double-check
malapropisme is uncommon French outside the top frequency list, classed as anoun, transcribed \ma.la.pʁo.pism\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Abus de langage, emploi considéré impropre d’un mot, le plus souvent avec un effet comique involontaire.".
No misspelling variants are generated for malapropisme in our index, since its letter sequence doesn't invite the usual edit-distance slips. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, since its spelling is unusual enough that it doesn't cluster with a lookalike.
No borrowing history is documented for this entry, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct French form is malapropisme, spelled M-A-L-A-P-R-O-P-I-S-M-E.
Definition
- 1Abus de langage, emploi considéré impropre d’un mot, le plus souvent avec un effet comique involontaire.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how malapropisme appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Les dictionnaires bilingues ont des difficultés à trouver des équivalents au malapropisme dans d’autres langues.
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). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.