malhonnêteté

\ma.lɔ.nɛt.te\

/\ma.lɔ.nɛt.te\/ noun

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The verdict

“malhonnêteté” has 17 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #32,476. The variants make it a useful spelling check.

#32,476
frequency rank, French
5,038
“M” headwords
17
tracked misspellings
2
confusable pairs

According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Défaut d’honnêteté, de probité.

Corpus desk

Index FR-malhonnetete · malhonnêteté · French

malhonnêteté · rank #32,476 · 17 variants · 2 confusables

  • FREQ-MID #32,476
  • LEN-MEGA 12 letters
  • VOW-5 5 vowels
  • CONFUS-LOW 2 pairs
  • VAR-HIGH 17 variants
  • BOOK-DENSE 5,038
  • PHOTO-FINISH Madrilène

Nearest frequency peer: Madrilène (-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 « malhonnêteté »

Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin

corpus weight

What this shows « malhonnêteté » siège parmi ces pairs FrequencyWords; la profondeur des fautes est suivie à part dans le graphique d'édition.

Source FrequencyWords open word-frequency list As of September 3, 2026

Visual similarity to commonly confused words

How many letter changes separate each confused pair (Levenshtein distance, normalized).

malhonnêteté vs malhonnête
83% similar
malhonnêteté vs malhonnêtes
83% similar

Source: PlainSpell confusable corpus (Wiktionary, CC BY-SA).

Key facts for malhonnêteté
PropertyValue
Headwordmalhonnêteté
LanguageFrench
Part of speechNoun
IPA\ma.lɔ.nɛt.te\
Letters12
Frequency rank#32,476
Misspellings tracked17
Confusable pairs2
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « malhonnêteté »

De gauche à droite: le peu qui porte la parole quotidienne, puis la longue queue quasi invisible.malhonnêtetése place ici:

#1#100#1K#10K#100K
← used constantlyrarely used →

L'échelle est logarithmique (chaque tic ≈ 10× plus rare). Dans la même bande de rareté figurent « Madrilène » (#32,475), « Mandanda » (#32,477), « Lépine » (#32,474). Parmi 5,038 lemmes en « M », « malhonnêteté » est au #32,476. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

A misspelling magnet

The generator records 17 spelling variants around malhonnêteté (IPA \ma.lɔ.nɛt.te\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #32,476 among 5,038 “M” headwords. Wiktionary lists 3 senses, so context still picks the gloss.

Our generated misspelling index lists 17 likely wrong-spelling variants for malhonnêteté, with forms such as "amlhonnêteté", "mahlonnêteté", and "malhhonnêteté". 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 2 confusable-pair relationships, "malhonnête", "malhonnêtes", 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 is easiest explained by how it's pronounced rather than where it came from. The correct French form is malhonnêteté, spelled M-A-L-H-O-N-N-Ê-T-E-T-É.

Definition

  1. 1
    Défaut d’honnêteté, de probité.
  2. 2
    Incivilité, manque de bienséance.
  3. 3
    Paroles et des actions inciviles.

Recorded use

Wiktionary examples

These source excerpts show how malhonnêteté appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.

  1. Le groupe se doit d'être vigilant et de dénoncer sans réserve la supercherie, le charlatanisme et la malhonnêteté dont font preuves ceux dont le but est d'attirer des sympathisants.
  2. Il est d’une malhonnêteté révoltante.

Synonyms

canailleriedéloyautédéshonnêtetéescroquerieforfaiturefriponneriefripouilleriegredinerieimmoralitéimpolitesseimprobitéincivilitéinconvenanceincorrectionindécenceindignitémalversationmauvaise foitricherie

This word in other languages

dishonesty(English)deshonestidad(Español)velhacaria(Português)

Common misspellings

Also misspelled as:

  • amlhonnêteté
  • mahlonnêteté
  • malhhonnêteté
  • malhnonêteté
  • malhonnetete
  • malhonntêeté
  • malhonnêetté
  • malhonnêtetté
  • malhonnêteét
  • malhonnêtteté
  • malhonnêtteé
  • malhonênteté
  • malhonêteté
  • mallhonnêteté
  • malohnnêteté
  • mlahonnêteté
  • mmalhonnêteté

Misspelling Pattern Breakdown

How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of malhonnêteté - 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.

amlhonnêteté2mahlonnêteté2malhhonnêteté1malhnonêteté2malhonnetete2malhonntêeté2malhonnêetté2malhonnêtetté1
Edit distance from "malhonnêteté"

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.

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "malhonnêteté"?
"malhonnêteté" is spelled M-A-L-H-O-N-N-Ê-T-E-T-É. The IPA pronunciation is \ma.lɔ.nɛt.te\.
What does "malhonnêteté" mean?
As a noun, "malhonnêteté" means: Défaut d’honnêteté, de probité.
What words are commonly confused with "malhonnêteté"?
"malhonnêteté" is commonly confused with "malhonnête", "malhonnêtes". These words look or sound similar but have different meanings. PlainSpell provides detailed comparisons for each pair.
How do you pronounce "malhonnêteté"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "malhonnêteté" is \ma.lɔ.nɛt.te\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "malhonnêteté" come from?
"malhonnêteté" is a French word. PlainSpell covers definitions, pronunciations, and spelling data across English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, and German.
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Similar French words by spelling shape

Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "malhonnêteté", not the corpus desk frequency band.

Same letter count

Frequency-ranked French headwords with 12 letters (nearest by frequency rank).

héréditaires#32,439environnante#32,399rationnelles#32,553décompresser#32,382

Similar misspelling depth

Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (17 here; floor ≥5).

génératrice17 variantsrétroviseur17 variantscopieusement17 variantsautomatismes17 variants

Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org) Structured Wiktionary extract

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list