maléfices
\ma.le.fis\
The verdict
“maléfices” is uncommon French (frequency #66,894 among 5,038 “M” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #66,894
- frequency rank, French
- 5,038
- “M” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Pluriel de maléfice.
Corpus desk
Index FR-malefices · maléfices · French
maléfices · rank #66,894 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #66,894
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,038
- PHOTO-FINISH maltraitent
Nearest frequency peer: maltraitent (-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 « maléfices »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- magnétiseur
magnétiseur
33,111 corpus weight
- Malagasy
Malagasy
33,110 corpus weight
- mals
mals
33,109 corpus weight
- maltraitent
maltraitent
33,108 corpus weight
- maléfices
maléfices
33,107 corpus weight
- manchons
manchons
33,105 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « maléfices » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | maléfices |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ma.le.fis\ |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #66,894 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « maléfices » en français
Rare enough to double-check
maléfices is uncommon French at frequency #66,894 among 5,038 “M” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \ma.le.fis\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Pluriel de maléfice.".
The misspelling generator found no plausible variants for maléfices, a sign its spelling follows regular French conventions. No confusable counterpart is on file for this word, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
This entry carries no recorded etymology, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. The correct French form is maléfices, spelled M-A-L-É-F-I-C-E-S.
Definition
- 1Pluriel de maléfice.
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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