malmène
\mal.mɛn\
The verdict
“malmène” is uncommon French (frequency #74,976 among 5,038 “M” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #74,976
- frequency rank, French
- 5,038
- “M” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Première personne du singulier du présent de l’indicatif de malmener.
Corpus desk
Index FR-malmene · malmène · French
malmène · rank #74,976 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #74,976
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,038
- PHOTO-FINISH Malvy
Nearest frequency peer: Malvy (+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 « malmène »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- makhzen
makhzen
25,028 corpus weight
- Malabo
Malabo
25,027 corpus weight
- malmène
malmène
25,025 corpus weight
- Malvy
Malvy
25,024 corpus weight
- manants
manants
25,023 corpus weight
- manara
manara
25,022 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « malmène » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | malmène |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \mal.mɛn\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #74,976 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « malmène » en français
Rare enough to double-check
malmène is uncommon French at frequency #74,976 among 5,038 “M” headwords, classed as averb, transcribed \mal.mɛn\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 5 senses are on record.
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for malmène, which points to an orthography that plays by predictable French rules. Our confusable-pair dataset has no match for it, since its spelling is unusual enough that it doesn't cluster with a lookalike.
This entry's etymology isn't recorded, so any spelling logic here comes from how the word's sounds map to letters, not a documented origin story. The correct French form is malmène, spelled M-A-L-M-È-N-E.
Definition
- 1Première personne du singulier du présent de l’indicatif de malmener.
- 2Troisième personne du singulier du présent de l’indicatif de malmener.
- 3Première personne du singulier du présent du subjonctif de malmener.
- 4Troisième personne du singulier du présent du subjonctif de malmener.
- 5Deuxième personne du singulier de l’impératif de malmener.
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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