malmenée
\mal.mə.ne\
The verdict
“malmenée” is uncommon French (frequency #51,594 among 5,038 “M” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #51,594
- frequency rank, French
- 5,038
- “M” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Participe passé féminin singulier de malmener.
Corpus desk
Index FR-malmenee · malmenée · French
malmenée · rank #51,594 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #51,594
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,038
- PHOTO-FINISH malfaisant
Nearest frequency peer: malfaisant (-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 « malmenée »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- Magdeleine
Magdeleine
48,410 corpus weight
- magnétophone
magnétophone
48,409 corpus weight
- malfaisant
malfaisant
48,408 corpus weight
- malmenée
malmenée
48,407 corpus weight
- manouche
manouche
48,406 corpus weight
- marionnetti…
marionnettiste
48,404 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « malmenée » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | malmenée |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \mal.mə.ne\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #51,594 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « malmenée » en français
Rare enough to double-check
malmenée is uncommon French at frequency #51,594 among 5,038 “M” headwords, classed as averb, transcribed \mal.mə.ne\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Participe passé féminin singulier de malmener.".
Zero misspellings are on record for malmenée in our index, a straightforward case of a spelling with little room for common typos. No confusable counterpart is on file for this word, a sign it's visually distinctive enough not to be mixed up with another word.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, 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 malmenée, spelled M-A-L-M-E-N-É-E.
Definition
- 1Participe passé féminin singulier de malmener.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how malmenée appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Au fil du temps, son discours ne pourra que sembler de plus en plus en décalage avec une France malmenée par des réformes calibrées par des hyper-urbains CSP + pour des hyper-urbains CSP +.
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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