malheurs
\ma.lœʁ\
The verdict
“malheurs” has 12 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #14,972. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #14,972
- frequency rank, French
- 5,038
- “M” headwords
- 12
- tracked misspellings
- 4
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Pluriel de malheur.
Corpus desk
Index FR-malheurs · malheurs · French
malheurs · rank #14,972 · 12 variants · 4 confusables
- FREQ-MID #14,972
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 4 pairs
- VAR-MID 12 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,038
- PHOTO-FINISH manipulations
Nearest frequency peer: manipulations (+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 « malheurs »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- ludique
ludique
85,032 corpus weight
- luminosité
luminosité
85,031 corpus weight
- malheurs
malheurs
85,029 corpus weight
- manipulatio…
manipulations
85,028 corpus weight
- mannequins
mannequins
85,027 corpus weight
- manoeuvre
manoeuvre
85,026 corpus weight
What this shows « malheurs » 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 | malheurs |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ma.lœʁ\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #14,972 |
| Misspellings tracked | 12 |
| Confusable pairs | 4 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « malheurs »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 12 spelling variants around malheurs (IPA \ma.lœʁ\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #14,972 among 5,038 “M” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Pluriel de malheur.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 12 likely wrong-spelling variants for malheurs, with forms such as "amlheurs", "mahleurs", and "malehurs". 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 4 confusable-pair relationships, "mangeurs", "marcheurs", "malheur", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
No documented word history exists for this headword, so its spelling pattern is best understood through pronunciation rather than a traceable origin. The correct French form is malheurs, spelled M-A-L-H-E-U-R-S.
Definition
- 1Pluriel de malheur.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how malheurs appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Elle n’est plus qu’une petite vieille déblondie et ratatinée qui me raconte ses malheurs, car elle a perdu le Cayla habité par Maurice et Eugénie, hérité par son père qui l’a vendu.
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- amlheurs
- mahleurs
- malehurs
- malherus
- malheurrs
- malheurss
- malheusr
- malhheurs
- malhuers
- mallheurs
- mlaheurs
- mmalheurs
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of malheurs - 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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Similar French words by spelling shape
Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "malheurs", not the corpus desk frequency band.
Same letter count
Frequency-ranked French headwords with 8 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (12 here; floor ≥5).