malteur
\mal.tœʁ\
The verdict
“malteur” is uncommon French (outside the top frequency list), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency French
- 7
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Ouvrier chargé de la préparation du malt pour les brasseurs.
Corpus desk
Index FR-malteur · malteur · French
malteur · unranked · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-UNRANKED Unranked
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-3 3 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 | malteur |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \mal.tœʁ\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
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Rare enough to double-check
malteur is uncommon French outside the top frequency list, classed as anoun, transcribed \mal.tœʁ\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
We couldn't generate a plausible misspelling set for malteur, since its letter sequence doesn't invite the usual edit-distance slips. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, so its spelling is best explained by sound-to-letter mapping rather than etymology. The correct French form is malteur, spelled M-A-L-T-E-U-R.
Definition
- 1Ouvrier chargé de la préparation du malt pour les brasseurs.
- 2Propriétaire ou tenancier d’une brasserie.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how malteur appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Non sans peine, il a fini par trouver un malteur, en Belgique, qui accepte de traiter sa récolte pour en faire du malt.
Je ne puis pas faire proposer à la Chambre de faire ce qu’a fait le parlement anglais : en 1883, en face d’une situation analogue, il a décidé que tous les commissionnaires, les marchands, les malteurs, les brasseurs seraient obligés de déclarer à un agent spécial de la reine, la quantité, le poids, le prix des grains qu’ils auraient achetés dans la semaine.
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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.