Malcolm
The verdict
“Malcolm” has 11 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #11,611. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #11,611
- frequency rank, French
- 5,038
- “M” headwords
- 11
- tracked misspellings
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Prénom masculin anglais.
Corpus desk
Index FR-malcolm · Malcolm · French
Malcolm · rank #11,611 · 11 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-MID #11,611
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-MID 11 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,038
- PHOTO-FINISH Luther
Nearest frequency peer: Luther (-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 « Malcolm »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- localiser
localiser
88,393 corpus weight
- logis
logis
88,392 corpus weight
- Luther
Luther
88,391 corpus weight
- Malcolm
Malcolm
88,390 corpus weight
- malheureuse
malheureuse
88,389 corpus weight
- Margaret
Margaret
88,387 corpus weight
What this shows « Malcolm » siège parmi ces pairs FrequencyWords; la profondeur des fautes est suivie à part dans le graphique d'édition.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Malcolm |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #11,611 |
| Misspellings tracked | 11 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « Malcolm »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 11 spelling variants around Malcolm, aproper noun. Corpus frequency is #11,611 among 5,038 “M” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Prénom masculin anglais.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 11 likely wrong-spelling variants for Malcolm, with forms such as "amlcolm", "maclolm", and "malccolm". 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. This headword has no recorded confusable partner, since no other headword is close enough in sound or shape to pair with it.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct French form is Malcolm, spelled M-A-L-C-O-L-M.
Definition
- 1Prénom masculin anglais.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how Malcolm appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Malcolm de Chazal.
Qu’on me rende mon Malcolm, sa voix grave, ses yeux bleus, ses péniches taille 44.
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- amlcolm
- maclolm
- malccolm
- malclom
- malcollm
- malcolmm
- malcoml
- mallcolm
- maloclm
- mlacolm
- mmalcolm
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of Malcolm - expressed in single-character edits (insert, delete, or swap one letter). Bigger bars stand out at a glance; a one-edit slip is the hardest to catch.
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 7 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (11 here; floor ≥5).