malentendant
\ma.lɑ̃.tɑ̃.dɑ̃\
The verdict
“malentendant” is uncommon French (frequency #95,034 among 5,038 “M” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #95,034
- frequency rank, French
- 5,038
- “M” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Personne qui a une acuité auditive déficiente.
Corpus desk
Index FR-malentendant · malentendant · French
malentendant · rank #95,034 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #95,034
- LEN-MEGA 12 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,038
- PHOTO-FINISH Maldini
Nearest frequency peer: Maldini (-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 « malentendant »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- maior
maior
4,973 corpus weight
- majority
majority
4,971 corpus weight
- Maldini
Maldini
4,968 corpus weight
- malentendant
malentendant
4,967 corpus weight
- Manbij
Manbij
4,966 corpus weight
- manos
manos
4,965 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « malentendant » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | malentendant |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ma.lɑ̃.tɑ̃.dɑ̃\ |
| Letters | 12 |
| Frequency rank | #95,034 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « malentendant » en français
Rare enough to double-check
malentendant is uncommon French at frequency #95,034 among 5,038 “M” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \ma.lɑ̃.tɑ̃.dɑ̃\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Personne qui a une acuité auditive déficiente.".
No misspelling variants are generated for malentendant in our index, typically a sign the spelling maps closely to how the word sounds. We don't track a confusable pairing for this entry, since its spelling is unusual enough that it doesn't cluster with a lookalike.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so its spelling pattern is best understood through pronunciation rather than a traceable origin. The correct French form is malentendant, spelled M-A-L-E-N-T-E-N-D-A-N-T.
Definition
- 1Personne qui a une acuité auditive déficiente.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how malentendant appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Le sourd est la personne qui présente une surdité profonde ou sévère. Le malentendant présente un déficit moyen ou léger et qui peut suivre une conversation.
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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