malléus
French, noun/ma.le.ys/
malléus is spelled M-A-L-L-É-U-S (7 letters) and appears about once in every 26 million words in written French, the 164,661st most frequent French word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Malléus is a French masculine noun meaning “malleus (small bone in the middle ear)” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Osselet de l’oreille”.
What does malléus mean in English?
noun
- 1
masculinemalleus (small bone in the middle ear)
Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How French dictionaries define it
noun: 1. Un des trois osselets de l’oreille moyenne, il est en contact avec le tympan.
noun: 1. Osselet de l’oreille.
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.
How do you pronounce malléus?
- /ma.le.ys/
- \ma.le.ys\
Sources: English Wiktionary, French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
English words that translate to malléus
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is malléus in French?
malléus appears about once in every 26 million words in written French.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).