malaxer
\ma.la.kse\
The verdict
“malaxer” is uncommon French (frequency #92,967 among 5,038 “M” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #92,967
- frequency rank, French
- 5,038
- “M” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Pétrir une matière pour la rendre plus molle.
Corpus desk
Index FR-malaxer · malaxer · French
malaxer · rank #92,967 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #92,967
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,038
- PHOTO-FINISH malaisée
Nearest frequency peer: malaisée (-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 « malaxer »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- mahométane
mahométane
7,037 corpus weight
- maillets
maillets
7,036 corpus weight
- malaisée
malaisée
7,035 corpus weight
- malaxer
malaxer
7,034 corpus weight
- malices
malices
7,033 corpus weight
- Malory
Malory
7,032 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « malaxer » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | malaxer |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \ma.la.kse\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #92,967 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « malaxer » en français
Rare enough to double-check
malaxer is uncommon French at frequency #92,967 among 5,038 “M” headwords, classed as averb, transcribed \ma.la.kse\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 3 senses are on record.
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for malaxer, a straightforward case of a spelling with little room for common typos. This headword has no recorded confusable partner, 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 its spelling pattern is best understood through pronunciation rather than a traceable origin. The correct French form is malaxer, spelled M-A-L-A-X-E-R.
Definition
- 1Pétrir une matière pour la rendre plus molle.
- 2Presser du beurre pour en extraire le petit lait.
- 3Triturer, tripoter, manipuler.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how malaxer appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Pour la préparation proprement dite du « Bébélé », les tripes doivent être soigneusement lavées, nettoyées à grande eau, plusieurs fois et malaxées dans de la farine pour enlever toute trace de souillures.
Il devait constater que ce régime de temporisation et que cette alerte de pensées toujours ramenées vers Dieu par des visites quotidiennes dans les églises, agissaient à la longue sur lui et lui malaxaient peu à peu l’âme.
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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