malmenée

\mal.mə.ne\

/\mal.mə.ne\/ verb

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

corpus weight

What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « malmenée » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.

Source FrequencyWords open word-frequency list As of September 3, 2026
Key facts for malmenée
PropertyValue
Headwordmalmenée
LanguageFrench
Part of speechVerb
IPA\mal.mə.ne\
Letters8
Frequency rank#51,594
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Longue queue: rang de « malmenée » en français

De gauche à droite: le peu qui porte la parole quotidienne, puis la longue queue quasi invisible.malmenéetombe dans cette queue de rareté:

#1#100#1K#10K#100K
← used constantlyrarely used →

Les tics avancent en logarithme; chacun est de l'ordre de dix fois plus rare. Voisins rares de la même bande: « malfaisant » (#51,593), « manouche » (#51,595), « magnétophone » (#51,592). Parmi 5,038 lemmes en « M », « malmenée » est au #51,594. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

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

  1. 1
    Participe passé féminin singulier de malmener.

Recorded use

Wiktionary example

These source excerpts show how malmenée appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.

  1. 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.

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "malmenée"?
"malmenée" is spelled M-A-L-M-E-N-É-E. The IPA pronunciation is \mal.mə.ne\.
What does "malmenée" mean?
As a verb, "malmenée" means: Participe passé féminin singulier de malmener.
How do you pronounce "malmenée"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "malmenée" is \mal.mə.ne\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "malmenée" come from?
"malmenée" is a French word. PlainSpell's reference spans five languages -- English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, and German -- with definitions, pronunciations, and spelling data for each.
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Similar French words by spelling shape

Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "malmenée", not the corpus desk frequency band.

Same letter count

Frequency-ranked French headwords with 8 letters (nearest by frequency rank).

Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org) Structured Wiktionary extract

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list