malus
\ma.lys\
The verdict
“malus” has 7 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #24,666. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #24,666
- frequency rank, French
- 5,038
- “M” headwords
- 7
- tracked misspellings
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Pénalité financière à laquelle sont soumis les assurés ayant trop d’accidents.
Corpus desk
Index FR-malus · malus · French
malus · rank #24,666 · 7 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-MID #24,666
- LEN-MID 5 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-MID 7 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,038
- PHOTO-FINISH manille
Nearest frequency peer: manille (+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 « malus »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- loués
loués
75,339 corpus weight
- magouilles
magouilles
75,337 corpus weight
- malus
malus
75,335 corpus weight
- manille
manille
75,334 corpus weight
- marquait
marquait
75,332 corpus weight
- Matrix
Matrix
75,331 corpus weight
What this shows « malus » 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 | malus |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ma.lys\ |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #24,666 |
| Misspellings tracked | 7 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « malus »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 7 spelling variants around malus (IPA \ma.lys\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #24,666 among 5,038 “M” headwords. Wiktionary lists 2 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 7 likely wrong-spelling variants for malus, with forms such as "amlus", "mallus", and "malsu". Each variant is a distinct typo pattern an edit-distance generator flags, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution. It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "mas", "mls", "mus", and more, since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, so its spelling is best read as a straightforward mapping from sound to letter. The correct French form is malus, spelled M-A-L-U-S.
Definition
- 1Pénalité financière à laquelle sont soumis les assurés ayant trop d’accidents.
- 2Inconvénient.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how malus appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Après le premier accident, un malus de 10 % est appliqué.
Cette voie serait sans doute plus juridiquement sécuritaire, mais elle emporterait le malus éducatif conséquent de priver les élèves d'informations quand même très pertinentes pour comprendre l'actualité du monde contemporain ….
Antonyms
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- amlus
- mallus
- malsu
- maluss
- mauls
- mlaus
- mmalus
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of malus - measured in single-character edits (insert, delete, or substitute a letter). Larger bars are easier to catch; one-edit slips are the sneakiest.
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 5 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (7 here; floor ≥5).