mallette
\ma.lɛt\
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
- légaliser
légaliser
72,885 corpus weight
- mallet
mallet
72,882 corpus weight
- mallette
mallette
72,881 corpus weight
- mangue
mangue
72,880 corpus weight
- manqueront
manqueront
72,879 corpus weight
- mata
mata
72,878 corpus weight
What this shows « mallette » siège parmi ces pairs FrequencyWords; la profondeur des fautes est suivie à part dans le graphique d'édition.
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 | mallette |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ma.lɛt\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #27,120 |
| Misspellings tracked | 8 |
| Confusable pairs | 6 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « mallette »
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
- 1Petite malle.
- 2Cartable, sac d’école.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how mallette appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
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).
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.
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
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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).