malpoli
\mal.pɔ.li\
The verdict
“malpoli” is uncommon French (frequency #52,186 among 5,038 “M” headwords), classed as an adjective. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #52,186
- frequency rank, French
- 5,038
- “M” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Grossier, impoli.
Corpus desk
Index FR-malpoli · malpoli · French
malpoli · rank #52,186 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #52,186
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,038
- PHOTO-FINISH manquerais
Nearest frequency peer: manquerais (+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 « malpoli »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- magi
magi
47,818 corpus weight
- maintenons
maintenons
47,817 corpus weight
- malpoli
malpoli
47,815 corpus weight
- manquerais
manquerais
47,814 corpus weight
- marginalisé
marginalisé
47,813 corpus weight
- Maroni
Maroni
47,812 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « malpoli » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | malpoli |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | \mal.pɔ.li\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #52,186 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « malpoli » en français
Rare enough to double-check
malpoli is uncommon French at frequency #52,186 among 5,038 “M” headwords, classed as anadjective, transcribed \mal.pɔ.li\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Grossier, impoli.".
The misspelling generator found no plausible variants for malpoli, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. 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 carries no recorded etymology, 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 malpoli, spelled M-A-L-P-O-L-I.
Definition
- 1Grossier, impoli.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how malpoli appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Les vices d’un pédant sont d’être malpoli, féroce, chagrin, critique opiniâtre, et de disputer sur tout avec acharnement.
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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