malévole
\ma.le.vɔl\
The verdict
“malévole” is uncommon French (outside the top frequency list), classed as an adjective. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency French
- 8
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - ou Malveillant ; malintentionné.
Corpus desk
Index FR-malevole · malévole · French
malévole · unranked · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-UNRANKED Unranked
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-THIN "M" thin
- PHOTO-UNK Peer pending
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.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | malévole |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | \ma.le.vɔl\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « malévole » en français
Rare enough to double-check
malévole is uncommon French outside the top frequency list, classed as anadjective, transcribed \ma.le.vɔl\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "ou Malveillant ; malintentionné.".
The misspelling generator found no plausible variants for malévole, since its letter sequence doesn't invite the usual edit-distance slips. This entry stands alone in our confusable dataset, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct French form is malévole, spelled M-A-L-É-V-O-L-E.
Definition
- 1ou Malveillant ; malintentionné.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how malévole appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Je me rappelle qu’au moyen âge la gorge chez les femmes n’était pas à la mode, celles qui avaient le malheur d’en avoir portaient des corsets qui la comprimaient et la dissimulaient autant que possible. Le lecteur trouve peut-être ce souvenir un peu leste : je ne prends pas ce ton par recherche et comme moyen d’esprit, Dieu m’en garde ! mais je prétends a…
Plus que la guerre des chefs, ce qui me frappe en ces lieux, c'est la critique du chef, et des chefs. En cabinet ministériel, j'étais l'un des rares esprits ouvertement malévoles. On me passait ma sincérité, je suis Plume, donc artiste, et pour tout dire, bouffon. À l'Élysée, fin de la bien-pensance et du militantisme béat. Le mauvais esprit y est un spor…
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Definitions, pronunciation, and etymology for this entry are drawn from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org structured extract (CC BY-SA). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.