mallette

\ma.lɛt\

/\ma.lɛt\/ noun

The verdict

“mallette” has 8 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #27,120. The variants make it a useful spelling check.

#27,120
frequency rank, French
5,038
“M” headwords
8
tracked misspellings
6
confusable pairs

According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Petite malle.

Corpus desk

Index FR-mallette · mallette · French

mallette · rank #27,120 · 8 variants · 6 confusables

  • FREQ-MID #27,120
  • LEN-LONG 8 letters
  • VOW-3 3 vowels
  • CONFUS-MID 6 pairs
  • VAR-MID 8 variants
  • BOOK-DENSE 5,038
  • PHOTO-FINISH mallet

Nearest frequency peer: mallet (-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 « mallette »

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

corpus weight

What this shows « mallette » 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).

mallette vs manette
75% similar
mallette vs molette
75% similar
mallette vs maquette
75% similar

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

Key facts for mallette
PropertyValue
Headwordmallette
LanguageFrench
Part of speechNoun
IPA\ma.lɛt\
Letters8
Frequency rank#27,120
Misspellings tracked8
Confusable pairs6
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « mallette »

Cette échelle va du noyau du français courant (gauche) jusqu'à la traîne des formes rares (droite).mallettese 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 « mallet » (#27,119), « mangue » (#27,121), « manqueront » (#27,122). Parmi 5,038 lemmes en « M », « mallette » est au #27,120. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

A misspelling magnet

The generator records 8 spelling variants around mallette (IPA \ma.lɛt\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #27,120 among 5,038 “M” headwords. Wiktionary lists 2 senses, so context still picks the gloss.

Our generated misspelling index lists 8 likely wrong-spelling variants for mallette, with forms such as "amllette", "maleltte", and "malette". Every one of these variants traces to a single-character edit -- an added or dropped letter, a swapped consonant, or a vowel swap -- the kind of slip a spell-checker is built to catch. It also participates in 6 confusable-pair relationships, "manette", "molette", "maquette", and more, a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.

Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, 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 mallette, spelled M-A-L-L-E-T-T-E.

Definition

  1. 1
    Petite malle.
  2. 2
    Cartable, sac d’école.

Recorded use

Wiktionary examples

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

  1. Comme convenu, le Costel prit le car d'Aix, à dix heures. Il avait logé son lièvre dans une mallette d'osier pour lui donner un peu d'air, car les mouches commençaient à le « boustiguer » (tracasser).
  2. J’ai donc demandé à l’entreprise de location de voiture si elle pouvait mettre un employé dans le premier vol du lendemain pour nous apporter la mallette.

This word in other languages

Common misspellings

Also misspelled as:

  • amllette
  • maleltte
  • malette
  • mallete
  • malletet
  • malltete
  • mlalette
  • mmallette

Misspelling Pattern Breakdown

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

amllette2maleltte2malette1mallete1malletet2malltete2mlalette2mmallette1
Edit distance from "mallette"

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 "mallette"?
"mallette" is spelled M-A-L-L-E-T-T-E. The IPA pronunciation is \ma.lɛt\.
What does "mallette" mean?
As a noun, "mallette" means: Petite malle.
What words are commonly confused with "mallette"?
"mallette" is commonly confused with "manette", "molette", "maquette". These words look or sound similar but have different meanings. PlainSpell provides detailed comparisons for each pair.
How do you pronounce "mallette"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "mallette" is \ma.lɛt\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "mallette" come from?
"mallette" is a French word. You can look up definitions, pronunciations, and spelling data for this and other words across English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, and German on PlainSpell.
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Similar French words by spelling shape

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

Same letter count

Frequency-ranked French headwords with 8 letters (nearest by frequency rank).

Similar misspelling depth

Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (8 here; floor ≥5).

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

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list