malfrat
\mal.fʁa\
The verdict
“malfrat” is uncommon French (frequency #52,810 among 5,038 “M” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #52,810
- frequency rank, French
- 5,038
- “M” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Voyou ; malfaiteur ; bandit.
Corpus desk
Index FR-malfrat · malfrat · French
malfrat · rank #52,810 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #52,810
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,038
- PHOTO-FINISH mahut
Nearest frequency peer: mahut (-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 « malfrat »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- Lévêque
Lévêque
47,194 corpus weight
- mahut
mahut
47,192 corpus weight
- malfrat
malfrat
47,191 corpus weight
- mansuétude
mansuétude
47,190 corpus weight
- Marcelin
Marcelin
47,189 corpus weight
- Marolles
Marolles
47,188 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « malfrat » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | malfrat |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \mal.fʁa\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #52,810 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « malfrat » en français
Rare enough to double-check
malfrat is uncommon French at frequency #52,810 among 5,038 “M” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \mal.fʁa\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Voyou ; malfaiteur ; bandit.".
No generated misspelling entries exist for malfrat in our index, a sign its spelling follows regular French conventions. This headword has no recorded confusable partner, since its spelling is unusual enough that it doesn't cluster with a lookalike.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, so its spelling is easiest explained by how it's pronounced rather than where it came from. The correct French form is malfrat, spelled M-A-L-F-R-A-T.
Definition
- 1Voyou ; malfaiteur ; bandit.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how malfrat appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Elle se souvenait du jour du défilé, quand Martial avait tiré Alex des griffes du malfrat.
Un des informateurs du patron —[…]– nous a refilé un tuyau d'importance. Deux malfrats aguerris et une petite frappe en devenir ont eu vent de la prochaine opération « sac à dos ».
This word in other languages
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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