malencontreuse
\ma.lɑ̃.kɔ̃t.ʁøz\
The verdict
“malencontreuse” is uncommon French (frequency #71,681 among 5,038 “M” headwords), classed as an adjective. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #71,681
- frequency rank, French
- 5,038
- “M” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Féminin singulier de malencontreux.
Corpus desk
Index FR-malencontreuse · malencontreuse · French
malencontreuse · rank #71,681 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #71,681
- LEN-MEGA 14 letters
- VOW-6 6 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,038
- PHOTO-FINISH mammographie
Nearest frequency peer: mammographie (+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 « malencontreuse »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- Louvres
Louvres
28,325 corpus weight
- luger
luger
28,323 corpus weight
- malencontre…
malencontreuse
28,320 corpus weight
- mammographie
mammographie
28,319 corpus weight
- manageur
manageur
28,318 corpus weight
- Marcella
Marcella
28,316 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « malencontreuse » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | malencontreuse |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | \ma.lɑ̃.kɔ̃t.ʁøz\ |
| Letters | 14 |
| Frequency rank | #71,681 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « malencontreuse » en français
Rare enough to double-check
malencontreuse is uncommon French at frequency #71,681 among 5,038 “M” headwords, classed as anadjective, transcribed \ma.lɑ̃.kɔ̃t.ʁøz\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Féminin singulier de malencontreux.".
malencontreuse has no tracked misspelling variants, typically a sign the spelling maps closely to how the word sounds. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, since its spelling is unusual enough that it doesn't cluster with a lookalike.
No borrowing history is documented for this entry, so its spelling pattern is best understood through pronunciation rather than a traceable origin. The correct French form is malencontreuse, spelled M-A-L-E-N-C-O-N-T-R-E-U-S-E.
Definition
- 1Féminin singulier de malencontreux.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how malencontreuse appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Dans le grenier, on trouve que la punition est suffisante et les bourreaux descendent la victime, qui n’a rien de plus pressé que de se défaire de la corde malencontreuse et de courir en son logis pour se désenfieller.
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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