malformations
\mal.fɔʁ.ma.sjɔ̃\
The verdict
“malformations” has 20 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #32,889. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #32,889
- frequency rank, French
- 5,038
- “M” headwords
- 20
- tracked misspellings
- 1
- confusable pair
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Pluriel de malformation.
Corpus desk
Index FR-malformations · malformations · French
malformations · rank #32,889 · 20 variants · 1 confusable
- FREQ-MID #32,889
- LEN-MEGA 13 letters
- VOW-5 5 vowels
- CONFUS-LOW 1 pairs
- VAR-HIGH 20 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,038
- PHOTO-FINISH malhonnêtes
Nearest frequency peer: malhonnêtes (+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 « malformations »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- Lucrèce
Lucrèce
67,115 corpus weight
- lâchait
lâchait
67,114 corpus weight
- malformatio…
malformations
67,112 corpus weight
- malhonnêtes
malhonnêtes
67,111 corpus weight
- maléfiques
maléfiques
67,110 corpus weight
- mangeaient
mangeaient
67,109 corpus weight
What this shows « malformations » 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 | malformations |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \mal.fɔʁ.ma.sjɔ̃\ |
| Letters | 13 |
| Frequency rank | #32,889 |
| Misspellings tracked | 20 |
| Confusable pairs | 1 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « malformations »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 20 spelling variants around malformations (IPA \mal.fɔʁ.ma.sjɔ̃\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #32,889 among 5,038 “M” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Pluriel de malformation.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 20 likely wrong-spelling variants for malformations, with forms such as "amlformations", "maflormations", and "malfformations". Each of these forms differs from the correct spelling by one small edit: a doubled letter, a dropped silent letter, or a substituted vowel. It also participates in 1 confusable-pair relationship, "malformation", since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
No borrowing history is documented 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 malformations, spelled M-A-L-F-O-R-M-A-T-I-O-N-S.
Definition
- 1Pluriel de malformation.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how malformations appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
La classification de l’International Society for the Study of Vascular Anomalies (ISSVA) distingue les tumeurs vasculaires des malformations vasculaires, avec ou sans prolifération endothéliale respectivement.
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- amlformations
- maflormations
- malfformations
- malfomrations
- malforamtions
- malformaitons
- malformatinos
- malformationns
- malformationss
- malformatiosn
- malformatoins
- malformattions
- malformmations
- malformtaions
- malforrmations
- malfromations
- mallformations
- malofrmations
- mlaformations
- mmalformations
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of malformations - expressed in single-character edits (insert, delete, or swap one letter). Bigger bars stand out at a glance; a one-edit slip is the hardest to catch.
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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Similar French words by spelling shape
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Same letter count
Frequency-ranked French headwords with 13 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (20 here; floor ≥5).