mallettes
\ma.lɛt\
The verdict
“mallettes” is uncommon French (frequency #76,777 among 5,038 “M” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #76,777
- frequency rank, French
- 5,038
- “M” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Pluriel de mallette.
Corpus desk
Index FR-mallettes · mallettes · French
mallettes · rank #76,777 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #76,777
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,038
- PHOTO-FINISH Managua
Nearest frequency peer: Managua (+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 « mallettes »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- Madelon
Madelon
23,228 corpus weight
- maggiore
maggiore
23,227 corpus weight
- mallettes
mallettes
23,224 corpus weight
- Managua
Managua
23,223 corpus weight
- manin
manin
23,221 corpus weight
- maniérisme
maniérisme
23,220 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « mallettes » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | mallettes |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ma.lɛt\ |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #76,777 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « mallettes » en français
Rare enough to double-check
mallettes is uncommon French at frequency #76,777 among 5,038 “M” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \ma.lɛt\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Pluriel de mallette.".
mallettes doesn't appear in our generated misspelling index, since its letter sequence doesn't invite the usual edit-distance slips. This entry stands alone in our confusable dataset, which usually means its spelling is distinct enough that readers don't reach for a similar-looking word instead.
No borrowing history is documented for this entry, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct French form is mallettes, spelled M-A-L-L-E-T-T-E-S.
Definition
- 1Pluriel de mallette.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how mallettes appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Dans les mallettes, il y avait jusqu’à 20 millions de francs.
La psychologie du Rased (Réseaux d’aides spécialisées aux élèves en difficulté) de Périgny - Puilboreau - Saint-Xandre a besoin d’acheter deux mallettes concernant le dépistage de troubles cognitifs.
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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