malentendants
\ma.lɑ̃.tɑ̃.dɑ̃\
The verdict
“malentendants” is uncommon French (frequency #55,419 among 5,038 “M” headwords), classed as an adjective. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #55,419
- frequency rank, French
- 5,038
- “M” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Masculin pluriel de malentendant.
Corpus desk
Index FR-malentendants · malentendants · French
malentendants · rank #55,419 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #55,419
- LEN-MEGA 13 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,038
- PHOTO-FINISH males
Nearest frequency peer: males (+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 « malentendants »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- Lutèce
Lutèce
44,586 corpus weight
- Mabille
Mabille
44,584 corpus weight
- malentendan…
malentendants
44,582 corpus weight
- males
males
44,581 corpus weight
- Malinois
Malinois
44,580 corpus weight
- manifesta
manifesta
44,579 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « malentendants » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | malentendants |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | \ma.lɑ̃.tɑ̃.dɑ̃\ |
| Letters | 13 |
| Frequency rank | #55,419 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « malentendants » en français
Rare enough to double-check
malentendants is uncommon French at frequency #55,419 among 5,038 “M” headwords, classed as anadjective, transcribed \ma.lɑ̃.tɑ̃.dɑ̃\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Masculin pluriel de malentendant.".
The misspelling generator found no plausible variants for malentendants, since its letter pattern doesn't lend itself to common typo substitutions. Our confusable-pair dataset has no match for it, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
No documented word history exists for this headword, so its spelling is best read as a straightforward mapping from sound to letter. The correct French form is malentendants, spelled M-A-L-E-N-T-E-N-D-A-N-T-S.
Definition
- 1Masculin pluriel de malentendant.
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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