maltraiter
\mal.tʁe.te\
The verdict
“maltraiter” has 15 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #34,609. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #34,609
- frequency rank, French
- 5,038
- “M” headwords
- 15
- tracked misspellings
- 3
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Traiter durement en actions ou en paroles, malmener, frapper.
Corpus desk
Index FR-maltraiter · maltraiter · French
maltraiter · rank #34,609 · 15 variants · 3 confusables
- FREQ-MID #34,609
- LEN-MEGA 10 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-LOW 3 pairs
- VAR-HIGH 15 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,038
- PHOTO-FINISH malheureuses
Nearest frequency peer: malheureuses (-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 « maltraiter »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- machiavéliq…
machiavélique
65,396 corpus weight
- malheureuses
malheureuses
65,393 corpus weight
- maltraiter
maltraiter
65,392 corpus weight
- mam
mam
65,391 corpus weight
- mammifère
mammifère
65,390 corpus weight
- mangeons
mangeons
65,389 corpus weight
What this shows « maltraiter » 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 | maltraiter |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \mal.tʁe.te\ |
| Letters | 10 |
| Frequency rank | #34,609 |
| Misspellings tracked | 15 |
| Confusable pairs | 3 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « maltraiter »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 15 spelling variants around maltraiter (IPA \mal.tʁe.te\), averb. Corpus frequency is #34,609 among 5,038 “M” headwords. Wiktionary lists 2 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 15 likely wrong-spelling variants for maltraiter, with forms such as "amltraiter", "malltraiter", and "malrtaiter". Every one of these variants traces to a single-character edit -- an added or dropped letter, a swapped consonant, or a vowel swap -- the kind of slip a spell-checker is built to catch. It also participates in 3 confusable-pair relationships, "maltraités", "maltraite", "maltraitée", since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
This entry's etymology isn't recorded, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. The correct French form is maltraiter, spelled M-A-L-T-R-A-I-T-E-R.
Definition
- 1Traiter durement en actions ou en paroles, malmener, frapper.
- 2Traiter quelqu’un d’une façon défavorable.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how maltraiter appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Ce mari maltraite sa femme.
Cet arrêt a fort maltraité la partie plaignante.
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- amltraiter
- malltraiter
- malrtaiter
- maltariter
- maltraietr
- maltraiterr
- maltraitre
- maltraitter
- maltratier
- maltriater
- maltrraiter
- malttraiter
- matlraiter
- mlatraiter
- mmaltraiter
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of maltraiter - 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 10 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (15 here; floor ≥5).