malléole
French, noun/ma.le.ɔl/
malléole is spelled M-A-L-L-É-O-L-E (8 letters) and appears about once in every 11 million words in written French, the 110,748th most frequent French word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Malléole is a French feminine noun meaning “malleolus” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Partie saillante du bas des os de la jambe, appelée communément la cheville (du pied) (homme et primates), ou…”.
What does malléole mean in English?
noun
- 1
femininemalleolus
Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How French dictionaries define it
noun: 1. Partie saillante du bas des os de la jambe, appelée communément la cheville (du pied) (homme et primates), ou du jarret (quadrupèdes).
The definition in the French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire), in French.
Source: French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire), dump of September 1, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org.
Forms of malléole
- malléoles plural
Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce malléole?
- /ma.le.ɔl/
- \ma.le.ɔl\
Sources: English Wiktionary, French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
English words that translate to malléole
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is malléole in French?
malléole appears about once in every 11 million words in written French.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).