malpropre
\mal.pʁɔpʁ\
The verdict
“malpropre” is uncommon French (frequency #53,475 among 5,038 “M” headwords), classed as an adjective. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #53,475
- frequency rank, French
- 5,038
- “M” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Qui manque de propreté ; qui est sale.
Corpus desk
Index FR-malpropre · malpropre · French
malpropre · rank #53,475 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #53,475
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,038
- PHOTO-FINISH Mareuil
Nearest frequency peer: Mareuil (+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 « malpropre »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- majorations
majorations
46,529 corpus weight
- maladroites
maladroites
46,528 corpus weight
- malpropre
malpropre
46,526 corpus weight
- Mareuil
Mareuil
46,525 corpus weight
- Marlborough
Marlborough
46,524 corpus weight
- massacrée
massacrée
46,523 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « malpropre » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | malpropre |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | \mal.pʁɔpʁ\ |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #53,475 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « malpropre » en français
Rare enough to double-check
malpropre is uncommon French at frequency #53,475 among 5,038 “M” headwords, classed as anadjective, transcribed \mal.pʁɔpʁ\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
No misspelling variants are generated for malpropre in our index, suggesting the orthography follows predictable French patterns. This entry stands alone in our confusable dataset, a sign it's visually distinctive enough not to be mixed up with another word.
This entry's etymology isn't recorded, so its spelling is best explained by sound-to-letter mapping rather than etymology. The correct French form is malpropre, spelled M-A-L-P-R-O-P-R-E.
Definition
- 1Qui manque de propreté ; qui est sale.
- 2Qui est contraire à la morale, à l’honnêteté, à la délicatesse.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how malpropre appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Le village auvergnat est resté malpropre, boueux, puant, délavé par les purins; il est sans lumières; les conditions d'habitation y sont exécrables.
Elle était hideuse ainsi. On voyait derrière ses lèvres relevées, débarrassées de rouge, décolorées et molles, ses dents malpropres ; un bourrelet de graisse saillait sous le menton.
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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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