malpolis
\mal.pɔ.li\
The verdict
“malpolis” is uncommon French (frequency #85,907 among 5,038 “M” headwords), classed as an adjective. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #85,907
- frequency rank, French
- 5,038
- “M” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Masculin pluriel de malpoli.
Corpus desk
Index FR-malpolis · malpolis · French
malpolis · rank #85,907 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #85,907
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,038
- PHOTO-FINISH malicia
Nearest frequency peer: malicia (-2 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 « malpolis »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- magmatique
magmatique
14,099 corpus weight
- majo
majo
14,098 corpus weight
- maladrerie
maladrerie
14,097 corpus weight
- malicia
malicia
14,096 corpus weight
- malpolis
malpolis
14,094 corpus weight
- manivelles
manivelles
14,092 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « malpolis » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | malpolis |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | \mal.pɔ.li\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #85,907 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « malpolis » en français
Rare enough to double-check
malpolis is uncommon French at frequency #85,907 among 5,038 “M” headwords, classed as anadjective, transcribed \mal.pɔ.li\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Masculin pluriel de malpoli.".
Zero misspellings are on record for malpolis in our index, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. 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.
Our source data has no etymology on file for this entry, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. The correct French form is malpolis, spelled M-A-L-P-O-L-I-S.
Definition
- 1Masculin pluriel de malpoli.
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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