malveillant
\mal.vɛ.jɑ̃\
The verdict
“malveillant” has 15 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #31,592. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #31,592
- frequency rank, French
- 5,038
- “M” headwords
- 15
- tracked misspellings
- 3
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Porté à vouloir, à souhaiter du mal à autrui.
Corpus desk
Index FR-malveillant · malveillant · French
malveillant · rank #31,592 · 15 variants · 3 confusables
- FREQ-MID #31,592
- LEN-MEGA 11 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-LOW 3 pairs
- VAR-HIGH 15 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,038
- PHOTO-FINISH malicieux
Nearest frequency peer: malicieux (-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 « malveillant »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- mairesse
mairesse
68,411 corpus weight
- malicieux
malicieux
68,410 corpus weight
- malveillant
malveillant
68,409 corpus weight
- manivelle
manivelle
68,408 corpus weight
- manquante
manquante
68,407 corpus weight
- Marcelle
Marcelle
68,406 corpus weight
What this shows « malveillant » 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 | malveillant |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | \mal.vɛ.jɑ̃\ |
| Letters | 11 |
| Frequency rank | #31,592 |
| Misspellings tracked | 15 |
| Confusable pairs | 3 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « malveillant »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 15 spelling variants around malveillant (IPA \mal.vɛ.jɑ̃\), anadjective. Corpus frequency is #31,592 among 5,038 “M” headwords. Wiktionary lists 3 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 15 likely wrong-spelling variants for malveillant, with forms such as "amlveillant", "malevillant", and "mallveillant". 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, "malveillants", "malveillante", "malveillance", since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so its spelling is easiest explained by how it's pronounced rather than where it came from. The correct French form is malveillant, spelled M-A-L-V-E-I-L-L-A-N-T.
Definition
- 1Porté à vouloir, à souhaiter du mal à autrui.
- 2Qui a de la malveillance.
- 3Où il y a de la malveillance.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how malveillant appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Les habitants des villas et des pavillons environnants passèrent rapidement de la curiosité malveillante à l’agression.
Le code malveillant peut arriver dans des spams ou dans des messages d’hameçonnage, ou dans des courriels envoyés automatiquement par les ordinateurs de correspondants connus qui ont été infectés à leur insu.
Synonyms
Antonyms
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- amlveillant
- malevillant
- mallveillant
- malveilalnt
- malveilant
- malveillannt
- malveillantt
- malveillatn
- malveillnat
- malvelilant
- malviellant
- malvveillant
- mavleillant
- mlaveillant
- mmalveillant
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of malveillant - 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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Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (15 here; floor ≥5).