malhabile
\ma.la.bil\
The verdict
“malhabile” is uncommon French (frequency #70,001 among 5,038 “M” headwords), classed as an adjective. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #70,001
- frequency rank, French
- 5,038
- “M” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Qui manque d’habileté.
Corpus desk
Index FR-malhabile · malhabile · French
malhabile · rank #70,001 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #70,001
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,038
- PHOTO-FINISH malala
Nearest frequency peer: malala (-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 « malhabile »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- magyars
magyars
30,003 corpus weight
- malala
malala
30,001 corpus weight
- malhabile
malhabile
30,000 corpus weight
- mallard
mallard
29,999 corpus weight
- mangeable
mangeable
29,998 corpus weight
- manient
manient
29,997 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « malhabile » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | malhabile |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | \ma.la.bil\ |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #70,001 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « malhabile » en français
Rare enough to double-check
malhabile is uncommon French at frequency #70,001 among 5,038 “M” headwords, classed as anadjective, transcribed \ma.la.bil\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Qui manque d’habileté.".
The misspelling generator found no plausible variants for malhabile, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. Our confusable-pair dataset has no match for it, since its spelling is unusual enough that it doesn't cluster with a lookalike.
No documented word history exists for this headword, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct French form is malhabile, spelled M-A-L-H-A-B-I-L-E.
Definition
- 1Qui manque d’habileté.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how malhabile appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
C'est sur-tout depuis quelque temps que j'ai été constamment appellé auprès des femmes mutilées par des accoucheurs et des matrônes mal-habiles que le nombre de ces victimes s'accroît tous les jours ; […]
Ses doigts malhabiles, enflés par la goutte, lui obéissaient très mal.
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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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