Malestroit
\ma.le.tʁwa\
The verdict
“Malestroit” is uncommon French (frequency #86,899 among 5,038 “M” headwords), classed as a proper noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #86,899
- frequency rank, French
- 5,038
- “M” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Commune française, située dans le département du Morbihan.
Corpus desk
Index FR-malestroit · Malestroit · French
Malestroit · rank #86,899 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #86,899
- LEN-MEGA 10 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,038
- PHOTO-FINISH maharadjah
Nearest frequency peer: maharadjah (-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 « Malestroit »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- Macquarie
Macquarie
13,106 corpus weight
- Madiot
Madiot
13,105 corpus weight
- maharadjah
maharadjah
13,103 corpus weight
- Malestroit
Malestroit
13,102 corpus weight
- malvoyant
malvoyant
13,101 corpus weight
- Mamers
Mamers
13,100 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « Malestroit » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Malestroit |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| IPA | \ma.le.tʁwa\ |
| Letters | 10 |
| Frequency rank | #86,899 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « Malestroit » en français
Rare enough to double-check
Malestroit is uncommon French at frequency #86,899 among 5,038 “M” headwords, classed as aproper noun, transcribed \ma.le.tʁwa\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Commune française, située dans le département du Morbihan.".
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for Malestroit, which points to an orthography that plays by predictable French rules. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, a sign it's visually distinctive enough not to be mixed up with another word.
Our source data has no etymology on file for this entry, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct French form is Malestroit, spelled M-A-L-E-S-T-R-O-I-T.
Definition
- 1Commune française, située dans le département du Morbihan.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how Malestroit appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Dans le Morbihan tout proche, également, Malestroit est une jolie petite ville lovée sur la rivière Oust.
Ainsi, entre Malestroit et Redon, le long de l'Oust les territoires de Saint-Martin-sur-Oust et des Fougerêts sont-ils encore inoccupés au haut Moyen Age, de même l'actuel territoire de La Gacilly au bord de l’Aff.
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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