mall
\mal\
The verdict
“mall” sits in 20 confusable pairs (corpus #35,138) as a verb. The look-alike neighbours are the real trap.
- #35,138
- frequency rank, French
- 5,038
- “M” headwords
- 3
- tracked misspellings
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Deuxième personne du singulier de l’impératif présent de mallen.
Corpus desk
Index FR-mall · mall · French
mall · rank #35,138 · 3 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-MID #35,138
- LEN-MID 4 letters
- VOW-1 1 vowel
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-LOW 3 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,038
- PHOTO-FINISH Malakoff
Nearest frequency peer: Malakoff (-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.
Voisins de fréquence du confusable « mall »
Pairs de poids proche dans le corpus, séparés des confusables ci-dessous
- lycéennes
lycéennes
64,866 corpus weight
- lâchera
lâchera
64,865 corpus weight
- Malakoff
Malakoff
64,864 corpus weight
- mall
mall
64,863 corpus weight
- malversatio…
malversations
64,862 corpus weight
- manchots
manchots
64,861 corpus weight
What this shows Les barres placent « mall » face aux lemmes français les plus proches par rang, pas un reprint du bureau des confusables.
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 | mall |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \mal\ |
| Letters | 4 |
| Frequency rank | #35,138 |
| Misspellings tracked | 3 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Rang de corpus près des confusables de « mall »
Easy to mix with look-alikes
The spelling risk for mall is neighbouring look-alikes ("ML", "max", …), not just typos; it is averb pronounced \mal\. Frequency #35,138 among 5,038 “M” headwords. Gloss: "Deuxième personne du singulier de l’impératif présent de mallen.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 3 likely wrong-spelling variants for mall, with forms such as "amll", "mlal", and "mmall". Each variant is a distinct typo pattern an edit-distance generator flags, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution. It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "ML", "max", "man", and more, since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
Our source data has no etymology on file for this entry, 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 mall, spelled M-A-L-L.
Definition
- 1Deuxième personne du singulier de l’impératif présent de mallen.
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- amll
- mlal
- mmall
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of mall - counted as single-character edits (an insertion, a deletion, or a substituted letter). The larger the bar, the easier the typo is to spot; one-edit slips are the ones that sneak past readers.
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 "mall", not the corpus desk frequency band.
Same letter count
Frequency-ranked French headwords with 4 letters (nearest by frequency rank).