maltraitent
\mal.tʁɛt\
The verdict
“maltraitent” is uncommon French (frequency #66,893 among 5,038 “M” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #66,893
- frequency rank, French
- 5,038
- “M” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Troisième personne du pluriel du présent de l’indicatif de maltraiter.
Corpus desk
Index FR-maltraitent · maltraitent · French
maltraitent · rank #66,893 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #66,893
- LEN-MEGA 11 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,038
- PHOTO-FINISH mals
Nearest frequency peer: mals (-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.
Rangs de longue queue près de « maltraitent »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- magnétiseur
magnétiseur
33,111 corpus weight
- Malagasy
Malagasy
33,110 corpus weight
- mals
mals
33,109 corpus weight
- maltraitent
maltraitent
33,108 corpus weight
- maléfices
maléfices
33,107 corpus weight
- manchons
manchons
33,105 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « maltraitent » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | maltraitent |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \mal.tʁɛt\ |
| Letters | 11 |
| Frequency rank | #66,893 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « maltraitent » en français
Rare enough to double-check
maltraitent is uncommon French at frequency #66,893 among 5,038 “M” headwords, classed as averb, transcribed \mal.tʁɛt\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
The misspelling generator found no plausible variants for maltraitent, a sign its spelling follows regular French conventions. No confusable counterpart is on file for this word, a sign it's visually distinctive enough not to be mixed up with another word.
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 maltraitent, spelled M-A-L-T-R-A-I-T-E-N-T.
Definition
- 1Troisième personne du pluriel du présent de l’indicatif de maltraiter.
- 2Troisième personne du pluriel du présent du subjonctif de maltraiter.
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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