malicieusement

\ma.li.sjøz.mɑ̃\

/\ma.li.sjøz.mɑ̃\/ adv

The verdict

“malicieusement” is uncommon French (frequency #58,078 among 5,038 “M” headwords), classed as an adverb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.

#58,078
frequency rank, French
5,038
“M” headwords

According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - D’une manière malicieuse.

Corpus desk

Index FR-malicieusement · malicieusement · French

malicieusement · rank #58,078 · 0 variants · 0 confusables

  • FREQ-RARE #58,078
  • LEN-MEGA 14 letters
  • VOW-7 7 vowels
  • CONFUS-0 No pairs
  • VAR-0 0 variants
  • BOOK-DENSE 5,038
  • PHOTO-FINISH manage

Nearest frequency peer: manage (+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 « malicieusement »

Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court

corpus weight

What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « malicieusement » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.

Source FrequencyWords open word-frequency list As of September 3, 2026
Key facts for malicieusement
PropertyValue
Headwordmalicieusement
LanguageFrench
Part of speechAdverb
IPA\ma.li.sjøz.mɑ̃\
Letters14
Frequency rank#58,078
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Longue queue: rang de « malicieusement » en français

La fréquence va de la poignée de mots du quotidien (gauche) à la longue queue presque jamais vue (droite).malicieusementtombe dans cette queue de rareté:

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

L'axe est logarithmique: chaque tic marque environ dix fois moins de fréquence. Voisins rares de la même bande: « manage » (#58,079), « Marchetti » (#58,080), « Marilou » (#58,081). Parmi 5,038 lemmes en « M », « malicieusement » est au #58,078. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

Rare enough to double-check

malicieusement is uncommon French at frequency #58,078 among 5,038 “M” headwords, classed as anadverb, transcribed \ma.li.sjøz.mɑ̃\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "D’une manière malicieuse.".

No misspelling variants are generated for malicieusement in our index, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, since no other headword is close enough in sound or shape to pair with it.

This entry carries no recorded etymology, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. The correct French form is malicieusement, spelled M-A-L-I-C-I-E-U-S-E-M-E-N-T.

Definition

  1. 1
    D’une manière malicieuse.

Recorded use

Wiktionary examples

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

  1. Je vous dirai donc en un mot, sur cette fable que vous avez semée dans tous vos écrits contre M. d’Ypres, que vous abusez malicieusement de quelques paroles ambigues d’une de ses lettres, qui étant capables d’un bon sens doivent être prises en bonne part, selon l’esprit de l’Eglise; & ne peuvent être prises autrement que selon l’esprit de votre Societé.
  2. Que voulez-vous, répliqua Jean de Boy malicieusement, on se bat toujours pour ce qu’on n’a pas !

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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.

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "malicieusement"?
"malicieusement" is spelled M-A-L-I-C-I-E-U-S-E-M-E-N-T. The IPA pronunciation is \ma.li.sjøz.mɑ̃\.
What does "malicieusement" mean?
As an adverb, "malicieusement" means: D’une manière malicieuse.
How do you pronounce "malicieusement"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "malicieusement" is \ma.li.sjøz.mɑ̃\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
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Similar French words by spelling shape

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

Same letter count

Frequency-ranked French headwords with 14 letters (nearest by frequency rank).

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

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list