males
\mal\
The verdict
“males” is uncommon French (frequency #55,420 among 5,038 “M” headwords), classed as an adjective. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #55,420
- frequency rank, French
- 5,038
- “M” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Féminin pluriel de mal.
Corpus desk
Index FR-males · males · French
males · rank #55,420 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #55,420
- LEN-MID 5 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,038
- PHOTO-FINISH malentendants
Nearest frequency peer: malentendants (-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 « males »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- 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
- maoïstes
maoïstes
44,578 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « males » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | males |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | \mal\ |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #55,420 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « males » en français
Rare enough to double-check
males is uncommon French at frequency #55,420 among 5,038 “M” headwords, classed as anadjective, transcribed \mal\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Féminin pluriel de mal.".
Zero misspellings are on record for males in our index, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. This entry stands alone in our confusable dataset, a sign it's visually distinctive enough not to be mixed up with another word.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so any spelling logic here comes from how the word's sounds map to letters, not a documented origin story. The correct French form is males, spelled M-A-L-E-S.
Definition
- 1Féminin pluriel de mal.
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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