malfaisante
\mal.fə.zɑ̃t\
The verdict
“malfaisante” is uncommon French (frequency #69,218 among 5,038 “M” headwords), classed as an adjective. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #69,218
- frequency rank, French
- 5,038
- “M” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Féminin singulier de malfaisant.
Corpus desk
Index FR-malfaisante · malfaisante · French
malfaisante · rank #69,218 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #69,218
- LEN-MEGA 11 letters
- VOW-5 5 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,038
- PHOTO-FINISH maio
Nearest frequency peer: maio (-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 « malfaisante »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- Madani
Madani
30,786 corpus weight
- maha
maha
30,785 corpus weight
- maio
maio
30,784 corpus weight
- malfaisante
malfaisante
30,783 corpus weight
- maléfice
maléfice
30,782 corpus weight
- Mannschaft
Mannschaft
30,781 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « malfaisante » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | malfaisante |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | \mal.fə.zɑ̃t\ |
| Letters | 11 |
| Frequency rank | #69,218 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « malfaisante » en français
Rare enough to double-check
malfaisante is uncommon French at frequency #69,218 among 5,038 “M” headwords, classed as anadjective, transcribed \mal.fə.zɑ̃t\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Féminin singulier de malfaisant.".
We couldn't generate a plausible misspelling set for malfaisante, a sign its spelling follows regular French conventions. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, which typically means the spelling is too distinctive to be mistaken for another word.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct French form is malfaisante, spelled M-A-L-F-A-I-S-A-N-T-E.
Definition
- 1Féminin singulier de malfaisant.
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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