malveillance
\mal.vɛ.jɑ̃s\
The verdict
“malveillance” has 16 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #33,773. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #33,773
- frequency rank, French
- 5,038
- “M” headwords
- 16
- tracked misspellings
- 3
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Mauvaise volonté pour les hommes en général ou pour quelqu’un en particulier.
Corpus desk
Index FR-malveillance · malveillance · French
malveillance · rank #33,773 · 16 variants · 3 confusables
- FREQ-MID #33,773
- LEN-MEGA 12 letters
- VOW-5 5 vowels
- CONFUS-LOW 3 pairs
- VAR-HIGH 16 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,038
- PHOTO-FINISH maladroits
Nearest frequency peer: maladroits (-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 « malveillance »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- maintenait
maintenait
66,231 corpus weight
- majorités
majorités
66,230 corpus weight
- maladroits
maladroits
66,229 corpus weight
- malveillance
malveillance
66,228 corpus weight
- malveillants
malveillants
66,227 corpus weight
- manet
manet
66,226 corpus weight
What this shows « malveillance » 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 | malveillance |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \mal.vɛ.jɑ̃s\ |
| Letters | 12 |
| Frequency rank | #33,773 |
| Misspellings tracked | 16 |
| Confusable pairs | 3 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « malveillance »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 16 spelling variants around malveillance (IPA \mal.vɛ.jɑ̃s\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #33,773 among 5,038 “M” headwords. Wiktionary lists 2 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 16 likely wrong-spelling variants for malveillance, with forms such as "amlveillance", "malevillance", and "mallveillance". 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 3 confusable-pair relationships, "malveillant", "malveillants", "malveillante", where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct French form is malveillance, spelled M-A-L-V-E-I-L-L-A-N-C-E.
Definition
- 1Mauvaise volonté pour les hommes en général ou pour quelqu’un en particulier.
- 2Acte criminel ayant pour objectif de nuire à autrui.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how malveillance appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
En me voyant, le colonel parut un peu gêné, et je crus m’apercevoir qu’il baissait la voix pour m’adresser la parole en français. Autour de nous, on chuchotait : « Frantzose… Frantzose… » Je sentais de la malveillance dans tous les yeux.
Pas la moindre festivité non plus, le 14 Juillet, à VIRIAT (Ain). Mais il ne faut pas y voir la moindre malveillance à l'égard de la République. On a l'habitude, ici, de célébrer le 14 Juillet... le 1ᵉʳ dimanche d'août !
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- amlveillance
- malevillance
- mallveillance
- malveilalnce
- malveilance
- malveillacne
- malveillancce
- malveillanec
- malveillannce
- malveillnace
- malvelilance
- malviellance
- malvveillance
- mavleillance
- mlaveillance
- mmalveillance
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of malveillance - 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 12 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (16 here; floor ≥5).