malicieuse
\ma.li.sjøz\
The verdict
“malicieuse” is uncommon French (frequency #54,086 among 5,038 “M” headwords), classed as an adjective. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #54,086
- frequency rank, French
- 5,038
- “M” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Féminin singulier de malicieux.
Corpus desk
Index FR-malicieuse · malicieuse · French
malicieuse · rank #54,086 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #54,086
- LEN-MEGA 10 letters
- VOW-6 6 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,038
- PHOTO-FINISH mangrove
Nearest frequency peer: mangrove (+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 « malicieuse »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- lévitique
lévitique
45,919 corpus weight
- macabres
macabres
45,918 corpus weight
- macaques
macaques
45,917 corpus weight
- malicieuse
malicieuse
45,915 corpus weight
- mangrove
mangrove
45,914 corpus weight
- mansion
mansion
45,913 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « malicieuse » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | malicieuse |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | \ma.li.sjøz\ |
| Letters | 10 |
| Frequency rank | #54,086 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « malicieuse » en français
Rare enough to double-check
malicieuse is uncommon French at frequency #54,086 among 5,038 “M” headwords, classed as anadjective, transcribed \ma.li.sjøz\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Féminin singulier de malicieux.".
No misspelling variants are generated for malicieuse in our index, suggesting the orthography follows predictable French patterns. We don't track a confusable pairing for this entry, since no other headword is close enough in sound or shape to pair with it.
Our source data has no etymology on file 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 malicieuse, spelled M-A-L-I-C-I-E-U-S-E.
Definition
- 1Féminin singulier de malicieux.
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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