malbec
\mal.bɛk\
The verdict
“malbec” is uncommon French (frequency #77,686 among 5,038 “M” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #77,686
- frequency rank, French
- 5,038
- “M” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Cépage de cuve noir français.
Corpus desk
Index FR-malbec · malbec · French
malbec · rank #77,686 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #77,686
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,038
- PHOTO-FINISH Malachie
Nearest frequency peer: Malachie (-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 « malbec »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- 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
- maquettiste
maquettiste
22,312 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « malbec » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | malbec |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \mal.bɛk\ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #77,686 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « malbec » en français
Rare enough to double-check
malbec is uncommon French at frequency #77,686 among 5,038 “M” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \mal.bɛk\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Cépage de cuve noir français.".
We couldn't generate a plausible misspelling set for malbec, suggesting the orthography follows predictable French patterns. No confusable counterpart is on file for this word, since no other headword is close enough in sound or shape to pair with it.
This entry carries no recorded etymology, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct French form is malbec, spelled M-A-L-B-E-C.
Definition
- 1Cépage de cuve noir français.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how malbec appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Le malbec, cépage roi de l’appellation Cahors, dans le Sud-Ouest, fait la gloire du vignoble argentin. La région de Mendoza en est le centre névralgique et on y produit d’excellents vins rouges. En particulier à base de malbec, dont l’argentine posséde les trois quarts des surfaces plantées dans le monde.
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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