malsain
\mal.sɛ̃\
The verdict
“malsain” has 10 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #16,410. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #16,410
- frequency rank, French
- 5,038
- “M” headwords
- 10
- tracked misspellings
- 7
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Qui n’est pas sain, qui a en soi le germe de quelque maladie.
Corpus desk
Index FR-malsain · malsain · French
malsain · rank #16,410 · 10 variants · 7 confusables
- FREQ-MID #16,410
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 7 pairs
- VAR-MID 10 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,038
- PHOTO-FINISH Marius
Nearest frequency peer: Marius (+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.
Pairs de rang près de l'aimant d'erreurs « malsain »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- longévité
longévité
83,595 corpus weight
- lâcheté
lâcheté
83,594 corpus weight
- malsain
malsain
83,591 corpus weight
- Marius
Marius
83,590 corpus weight
- marquise
marquise
83,589 corpus weight
- marées
marées
83,588 corpus weight
What this shows « malsain » siège parmi ces pairs FrequencyWords; la profondeur des fautes est suivie à part dans le graphique d'édition.
Visual similarity to commonly confused words
How many letter changes separate each confused pair (Levenshtein distance, normalized).
Source: PlainSpell confusable corpus (Wiktionary, CC BY-SA).
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | malsain |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | \mal.sɛ̃\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #16,410 |
| Misspellings tracked | 10 |
| Confusable pairs | 7 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « malsain »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 10 spelling variants around malsain (IPA \mal.sɛ̃\), anadjective. Corpus frequency is #16,410 among 5,038 “M” headwords. Wiktionary lists 4 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 10 likely wrong-spelling variants for malsain, with forms such as "amlsain", "malasin", and "mallsain". Every one of these variants traces to a single-character edit -- an added or dropped letter, a swapped consonant, or a vowel swap -- the kind of slip a spell-checker is built to catch. It also participates in 7 confusable-pair relationships, "marsan", "maltais", "malsaine", and more, since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
No borrowing history is documented for this entry, 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 malsain, spelled M-A-L-S-A-I-N.
Definition
- 1Qui n’est pas sain, qui a en soi le germe de quelque maladie.
- 2Qui est tourné vers les choses mauvaises, déraisonnables ; qui se complaît dans les mauvaises mœurs.
- 3Nuisible à la santé physique ou morale.
- 4Qui est caractérisé par sa négativité morbide.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how malsain appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Il a l’apparence malsaine.
J'avais beau me faire honte : plus que la honte, un goût malsain me retenait parmi ces êtres dont j'écoutais de loin les appels, les gémissements. […] ils me parvenaient sans ensemble mais souvent si fervents qu'ils réveillaient en moi d'inavouables appétits.
Synonyms
Antonyms
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- amlsain
- malasin
- mallsain
- malsainn
- malsani
- malsian
- malssain
- maslain
- mlasain
- mmalsain
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of malsain - counted as single-character edits (an insertion, a deletion, or a substituted letter). The larger the bar, the easier the typo is to spot; one-edit slips are the ones that sneak past readers.
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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Similar French words by spelling shape
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Same letter count
Frequency-ranked French headwords with 7 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (10 here; floor ≥5).