malotru
\ma.lɔt.ʁy\
The verdict
“malotru” is uncommon French (frequency #65,291 among 5,038 “M” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #65,291
- frequency rank, French
- 5,038
- “M” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Celui qui est mal élevé, grossier.
Corpus desk
Index FR-malotru · malotru · French
malotru · rank #65,291 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #65,291
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,038
- PHOTO-FINISH macroéconomie
Nearest frequency peer: macroéconomie (-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 « malotru »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- léser
léser
34,714 corpus weight
- macroéconom…
macroéconomie
34,711 corpus weight
- malotru
malotru
34,710 corpus weight
- mandi
mandi
34,709 corpus weight
- mangroves
mangroves
34,708 corpus weight
- Marcelino
Marcelino
34,707 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « malotru » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | malotru |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ma.lɔt.ʁy\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #65,291 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « malotru » en français
Rare enough to double-check
malotru is uncommon French at frequency #65,291 among 5,038 “M” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \ma.lɔt.ʁy\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Celui qui est mal élevé, grossier.".
Zero misspellings are on record for malotru in our index, suggesting the orthography follows predictable French patterns. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, since its spelling is unusual enough that it doesn't cluster with a lookalike.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so its spelling pattern is best understood through pronunciation rather than a traceable origin. The correct French form is malotru, spelled M-A-L-O-T-R-U.
Definition
- 1Celui qui est mal élevé, grossier.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how malotru appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Sur ce, je me vois dans l’obligation de vous prévenir que vous êtes un fier malotru, et que je vais déposer ma plainte chez le commissaire.
Beaucoup de gens sont venus à la rescousse, on me disait que j’avais tort de ne pas aller à Guermantes, que je me donnais l’air d’un malotru, d’un vieil ours.
This word in other languages
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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