malformation
\mal.fɔʁ.ma.sjɔ̃\
The verdict
“malformation” has 18 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #32,063. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #32,063
- frequency rank, French
- 5,038
- “M” headwords
- 18
- tracked misspellings
- 1
- confusable pair
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Vice de conformation.
Corpus desk
Index FR-malformation · malformation · French
malformation · rank #32,063 · 18 variants · 1 confusable
- FREQ-MID #32,063
- LEN-MEGA 12 letters
- VOW-5 5 vowels
- CONFUS-LOW 1 pairs
- VAR-HIGH 18 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,038
- PHOTO-FINISH maistre
Nearest frequency peer: maistre (-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.
Pairs de rang près de l'aimant d'erreurs « malformation »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- magenta
magenta
67,941 corpus weight
- maillet
maillet
67,940 corpus weight
- maistre
maistre
67,939 corpus weight
- malformation
malformation
67,938 corpus weight
- manchot
manchot
67,937 corpus weight
- menaient
menaient
67,935 corpus weight
What this shows « malformation » siège parmi ces pairs FrequencyWords; la profondeur des fautes est suivie à part dans le graphique d'édition.
Visual similarity to commonly confused words
How many letter changes separate each confused pair (Levenshtein distance, normalized).
Source: PlainSpell confusable corpus (Wiktionary, CC BY-SA).
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | malformation |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \mal.fɔʁ.ma.sjɔ̃\ |
| Letters | 12 |
| Frequency rank | #32,063 |
| Misspellings tracked | 18 |
| Confusable pairs | 1 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « malformation »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 18 spelling variants around malformation (IPA \mal.fɔʁ.ma.sjɔ̃\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #32,063 among 5,038 “M” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Vice de conformation.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 18 likely wrong-spelling variants for malformation, with forms such as "amlformation", "maflormation", and "malfformation". Every one of these variants traces to a single-character edit -- an added or dropped letter, a swapped consonant, or a vowel swap -- the kind of slip a spell-checker is built to catch. It also participates in 1 confusable-pair relationship, "malformations", since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
This entry's etymology isn't recorded, so its spelling pattern is best understood through pronunciation rather than a traceable origin. The correct French form is malformation, spelled M-A-L-F-O-R-M-A-T-I-O-N.
Definition
- 1Vice de conformation.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how malformation appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
L'auteur expose que la gémellarité par elle-même ne semble pas prédisposer d'une façon particulière à l’épilepsie. Comme on l'observe chez les épileptiques en général, l’épilepsie des jumeaux est très fréquemment symptomatique de malformations ou d'altérations cérébrales ([…]).
On en vient à lui attribuer presque toutes les malformations, presque toutes les monstruosités ; c'est l'âge d'or de la tératologie syphilitique.
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- amlformation
- maflormation
- malfformation
- malfomration
- malforamtion
- malformaiton
- malformatino
- malformationn
- malformatoin
- malformattion
- malformmation
- malformtaion
- malforrmation
- malfromation
- mallformation
- malofrmation
- mlaformation
- mmalformation
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of malformation - measured in single-character edits (insert, delete, or substitute a letter). Larger bars are easier to catch; one-edit slips are the sneakiest.
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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Frequency-ranked French headwords with 12 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
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