malterie
\mal.tʁi\
The verdict
“malterie” is uncommon French (outside the top frequency list), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency French
- 8
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Industrie qui consiste à préparer le malt.
Corpus desk
Index FR-malterie · malterie · French
malterie · unranked · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-UNRANKED Unranked
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-THIN "M" thin
- PHOTO-UNK Peer pending
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.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | malterie |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \mal.tʁi\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « malterie » en français
Rare enough to double-check
malterie is uncommon French outside the top frequency list, classed as anoun, transcribed \mal.tʁi\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for malterie, since its letter sequence doesn't invite the usual edit-distance slips. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, a sign it's visually distinctive enough not to be mixed up with another word.
This entry carries no recorded etymology, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct French form is malterie, spelled M-A-L-T-E-R-I-E.
Definition
- 1Industrie qui consiste à préparer le malt.
- 2Usine où se fait cette préparation.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how malterie appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Une malterie est une unité de transformation de l’orge en malt.
La plupart des brasseurs s'approvisionnent auprès des malteries qui transforment l'orge en malt..
Definitions, pronunciation, and etymology for this entry are drawn from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org structured extract (CC BY-SA). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.