malt
\malt\
The verdict
“malt” has 6 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #26,431. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #26,431
- frequency rank, French
- 5,038
- “M” headwords
- 6
- tracked misspellings
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Grains de céréales que l’on a fait germer, puis sécher pour faire cesser cette germination. Ils sont principalement utilisés pour la fabrication de la bière, mais aussi du whisky.
Corpus desk
Index FR-malt · malt · French
malt · rank #26,431 · 6 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-MID #26,431
- LEN-MID 4 letters
- VOW-1 1 vowel
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-MID 6 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,038
- PHOTO-FINISH magistrale
Nearest frequency peer: magistrale (-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 « malt »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- lodge
lodge
73,573 corpus weight
- magistrale
magistrale
73,571 corpus weight
- malt
malt
73,570 corpus weight
- Martineau
Martineau
73,568 corpus weight
- matérialiste
matérialiste
73,567 corpus weight
- maximales
maximales
73,566 corpus weight
What this shows « malt » 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 | malt |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \malt\ |
| Letters | 4 |
| Frequency rank | #26,431 |
| Misspellings tracked | 6 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « malt »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 6 spelling variants around malt (IPA \malt\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #26,431 among 5,038 “M” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Grains de céréales que l’on a fait germer, puis sécher pour faire cesser cette germination. Ils sont principalement utilisés pour la fabrication de la bière, mais aussi du whisky.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 6 likely wrong-spelling variants for malt, with forms such as "amlt", "mallt", and "maltt". Each variant is a distinct typo pattern an edit-distance generator flags, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution. It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "ML", "Mt", "mot", 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 its spelling is best read as a straightforward mapping from sound to letter. The correct French form is malt, spelled M-A-L-T.
Definition
- 1Grains de céréales que l’on a fait germer, puis sécher pour faire cesser cette germination. Ils sont principalement utilisés pour la fabrication de la bière, mais aussi du whisky.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how malt appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Quand l'orge est bien germée, on la porte dans une étuve à courant d'air chaud, appelée touraille ; la chaleur arrête immédiatement la germination. En tamisant les grains, on en sépare les petites radicelles ou touraillons, que la dessiccation a rendues très-cassantes. L'orge est ensuite réduite en poudre grossière entre des meules horizontales et donne l…
Armand Lebras lui tapota l’épaule pour l’engager à s’asseoir et lui demanda ce qu’il penserait d’un verre de vieil alcool de malt écossais. — (Tito Topin, Shanghai Skipper, Série noire, Gallimard, 1986, page 29)
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- amlt
- mallt
- maltt
- matl
- mlat
- mmalt
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of malt - expressed in single-character edits (insert, delete, or swap one letter). Bigger bars stand out at a glance; a one-edit slip is the hardest to catch.
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 4 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (6 here; floor ≥5).