malchance

\mal.ʃɑ̃s\

/\mal.ʃɑ̃s\/ noun

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The verdict

“malchance” has 14 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #18,796. The variants make it a useful spelling check.

#18,796
frequency rank, French
5,038
“M” headwords
14
tracked misspellings
2
confusable pairs

According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Mauvaise chance, suite de mésaventures, revers dus à un hasard malheureux.

Corpus desk

Index FR-malchance · malchance · French

malchance · rank #18,796 · 14 variants · 2 confusables

  • FREQ-MID #18,796
  • LEN-LONG 9 letters
  • VOW-3 3 vowels
  • CONFUS-LOW 2 pairs
  • VAR-HIGH 14 variants
  • BOOK-DENSE 5,038
  • PHOTO-FINISH mandarin

Nearest frequency peer: mandarin (+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 « malchance »

Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin

corpus weight

What this shows « malchance » siège parmi ces pairs FrequencyWords; la profondeur des fautes est suivie à part dans le graphique d'édition.

Source FrequencyWords open word-frequency list As of September 3, 2026

Visual similarity to commonly confused words

How many letter changes separate each confused pair (Levenshtein distance, normalized).

malchance vs marchande
78% similar
malchance vs malchanceux
82% similar

Source: PlainSpell confusable corpus (Wiktionary, CC BY-SA).

Key facts for malchance
PropertyValue
Headwordmalchance
LanguageFrench
Part of speechNoun
IPA\mal.ʃɑ̃s\
Letters9
Frequency rank#18,796
Misspellings tracked14
Confusable pairs2
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « malchance »

Cette échelle va du noyau du français courant (gauche) jusqu'à la traîne des formes rares (droite).malchancese place ici:

#1#100#1K#10K#100K
← used constantlyrarely used →

Les tics avancent en logarithme; chacun est de l'ordre de dix fois plus rare. Dans la même bande de rareté figurent « mandarin » (#18,797), « londonien » (#18,794), « mascotte » (#18,798). Parmi 5,038 lemmes en « M », « malchance » est au #18,796. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

A misspelling magnet

The generator records 14 spelling variants around malchance (IPA \mal.ʃɑ̃s\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #18,796 among 5,038 “M” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Mauvaise chance, suite de mésaventures, revers dus à un hasard malheureux.".

Our generated misspelling index lists 14 likely wrong-spelling variants for malchance, with forms such as "amlchance", "maclhance", and "malcahnce". Every one of these variants traces to a single-character edit -- an added or dropped letter, a swapped consonant, or a vowel swap -- the kind of slip a spell-checker is built to catch. It also participates in 2 confusable-pair relationships, "marchande", "malchanceux", where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.

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 malchance, spelled M-A-L-C-H-A-N-C-E.

Definition

  1. 1
    Mauvaise chance, suite de mésaventures, revers dus à un hasard malheureux.

Recorded use

Wiktionary examples

These source excerpts show how malchance appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.

  1. Quelle ne fut pas notre malchance: le générateur de notre poste, qui est escamotable, […], lorsqu'il n'est pas nécessaire de recharger les accumulateurs, se coinça sur son rail de sortie: […].
  2. Quelle malchance persistante! — C’est une malchance d’être arrivé ce jour-là.

Synonyms

badluckdébinedéveineguignemauvais œilmisèrepoissepouillescoumounesigne indien

Antonyms

barakachance

This word in other languages

adversity(English)Missgeschick(Deutsch)azar(Português)

Common misspellings

Also misspelled as:

  • amlchance
  • maclhance
  • malcahnce
  • malcchance
  • malchacne
  • malchancce
  • malchanec
  • malchannce
  • malchhance
  • malchnace
  • malhcance
  • mallchance
  • mlachance
  • mmalchance

Misspelling Pattern Breakdown

How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of malchance - measured in single-character edits (insert, delete, or substitute a letter). Larger bars are easier to catch; one-edit slips are the sneakiest.

amlchance2maclhance2malcahnce2malcchance1malchacne2malchancce1malchanec2malchannce1
Edit distance from "malchance"

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.

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "malchance"?
"malchance" is spelled M-A-L-C-H-A-N-C-E. The IPA pronunciation is \mal.ʃɑ̃s\.
What does "malchance" mean?
As a noun, "malchance" means: Mauvaise chance, suite de mésaventures, revers dus à un hasard malheureux.
What words are commonly confused with "malchance"?
"malchance" is commonly confused with "marchande", "malchanceux". These words look or sound similar but have different meanings. PlainSpell provides detailed comparisons for each pair.
How do you pronounce "malchance"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "malchance" is \mal.ʃɑ̃s\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "malchance" come from?
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Similar French words by spelling shape

Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "malchance", not the corpus desk frequency band.

Same letter count

Frequency-ranked French headwords with 9 letters (nearest by frequency rank).

londonien#18,794linéaires#18,793médiocres#18,803influents#18,780

Similar misspelling depth

Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (14 here; floor ≥5).

holocauste14 variantsprétendue14 variantsfanatiques14 variantsrapprochée14 variants

Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org) Structured Wiktionary extract

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list