malveillante
\mal.vɛ.jɑ̃t\
The verdict
“malveillante” has 16 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #44,566. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #44,566
- frequency rank, French
- 5,038
- “M” headwords
- 16
- tracked misspellings
- 3
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Féminin singulier de malveillant.
Corpus desk
Index FR-malveillante · malveillante · French
malveillante · rank #44,566 · 16 variants · 3 confusables
- FREQ-MID #44,566
- LEN-MEGA 12 letters
- VOW-5 5 vowels
- CONFUS-LOW 3 pairs
- VAR-HIGH 16 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,038
- PHOTO-FINISH manchon
Nearest frequency peer: manchon (+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 « malveillante »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- maisonnette
maisonnette
55,439 corpus weight
- malignes
malignes
55,437 corpus weight
- malveillante
malveillante
55,435 corpus weight
- manchon
manchon
55,434 corpus weight
- Mandchourie
Mandchourie
55,433 corpus weight
- maniabilité
maniabilité
55,431 corpus weight
What this shows « malveillante » 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 | malveillante |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | \mal.vɛ.jɑ̃t\ |
| Letters | 12 |
| Frequency rank | #44,566 |
| Misspellings tracked | 16 |
| Confusable pairs | 3 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « malveillante »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 16 spelling variants around malveillante (IPA \mal.vɛ.jɑ̃t\), anadjective. Corpus frequency is #44,566 among 5,038 “M” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Féminin singulier de malveillant.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 16 likely wrong-spelling variants for malveillante, with forms such as "amlveillante", "malevillante", and "mallveillante". 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, "malveillants", "malveillant", "malveillance", 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 malveillante, spelled M-A-L-V-E-I-L-L-A-N-T-E.
Definition
- 1Féminin singulier de malveillant.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how malveillante appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
La tâche « violente, brutale » de la schizo-analyse est fixée : « défamiliariser, désœdipianiser, décastrer, déphalliciser, défaire théâtre, rêve et fantasme, décoder, déterritorialiser — un affreux curetage, une activité malveillante ».
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- amlveillante
- malevillante
- mallveillante
- malveilalnte
- malveilante
- malveillanet
- malveillannte
- malveillantte
- malveillatne
- malveillnate
- malvelilante
- malviellante
- malvveillante
- mavleillante
- mlaveillante
- mmalveillante
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of malveillante - 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 12 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (16 here; floor ≥5).