malencontreux
\ma.lɑ̃.kɔ̃.tʁø\
The verdict
“malencontreux” is uncommon French (frequency #59,420 among 5,038 “M” headwords), classed as an adjective. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #59,420
- frequency rank, French
- 5,038
- “M” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Qui arrive au mauvais moment.
Corpus desk
Index FR-malencontreux · malencontreux · French
malencontreux · rank #59,420 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #59,420
- LEN-MEGA 13 letters
- VOW-5 5 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,038
- PHOTO-FINISH maja
Nearest frequency peer: maja (-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 « malencontreux »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- Maclou
Maclou
40,584 corpus weight
- magasinier
magasinier
40,583 corpus weight
- maja
maja
40,582 corpus weight
- malencontre…
malencontreux
40,581 corpus weight
- malmenés
malmenés
40,580 corpus weight
- mandarins
mandarins
40,579 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « malencontreux » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | malencontreux |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | \ma.lɑ̃.kɔ̃.tʁø\ |
| Letters | 13 |
| Frequency rank | #59,420 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « malencontreux » en français
Rare enough to double-check
malencontreux is uncommon French at frequency #59,420 among 5,038 “M” headwords, classed as anadjective, transcribed \ma.lɑ̃.kɔ̃.tʁø\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for malencontreux, a straightforward case of a spelling with little room for common typos. This entry stands alone in our confusable dataset, since its spelling is unusual enough that it doesn't cluster with a lookalike.
This entry's etymology isn't recorded, so its spelling is best read as a straightforward mapping from sound to letter. The correct French form is malencontreux, spelled M-A-L-E-N-C-O-N-T-R-E-U-X.
Definition
- 1Qui arrive au mauvais moment.
- 2Qui est sujet à éprouver des revers, des accidents.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how malencontreux appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Vous ne savez pas à quel point cet embouteillage est malencontreux pour moi !
Que ta folie, qui est déjà malencontreuse, ne soit pas encore trop durable.
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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