Malthus
The verdict
“Malthus” is an uncommon French word, ranked #64,592 in French word frequency and used as a proper noun.
- #64,592
- frequency rank, French
- 7
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - Nom de famille anglophone, surtout connu par Thomas Robert Malthus (1766-1834), un économiste britannique.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Malthus |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #64,592 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “Malthus” sits in French frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for Malthus is 7 letters long, classified as a proper noun. Corpus data places it at rank #64,592 in overall French word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it. The dominant gloss from Wiktionary reads: "Nom de famille anglophone, surtout connu par Thomas Robert Malthus (1766-1834), un économiste britannique.".
Malthus has no tracked misspelling variants, since its letter pattern doesn't lend itself to common typo substitutions. No confusable counterpart is on file for this word, since its spelling is unusual enough that it doesn't cluster with a lookalike.
No borrowing history is documented for this entry, so its spelling pattern is best understood through pronunciation rather than a traceable origin. The correct French form is Malthus, spelled M-A-L-T-H-U-S.
Definition
- 1Nom de famille anglophone, surtout connu par Thomas Robert Malthus (1766-1834), un économiste britannique.
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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Using “Malthus”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct French spelling is M-A-L-T-H-U-S - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
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Data Source
Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Word ordering uses an open word-frequency list; misspelling variants are generated by edit-distance from the correct headword.