malversation
\mal.vɛʁ.sa.sjɔ̃\
The verdict
“malversation” is uncommon French (frequency #66,090 among 5,038 “M” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #66,090
- frequency rank, French
- 5,038
- “M” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Faute grave commise par cupidité, dans l’exercice d’une charge, d’un emploi, dans l’exécution d’un mandat.
Corpus desk
Index FR-malversation · malversation · French
malversation · rank #66,090 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #66,090
- LEN-MEGA 12 letters
- VOW-5 5 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,038
- PHOTO-FINISH manic
Nearest frequency peer: manic (+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.
Rangs de longue queue près de « malversation »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- lyn
lyn
33,915 corpus weight
- Léopoldville
Léopoldville
33,914 corpus weight
- malversation
malversation
33,911 corpus weight
- manic
manic
33,910 corpus weight
- Manzoni
Manzoni
33,909 corpus weight
- marci
marci
33,908 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « malversation » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | malversation |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \mal.vɛʁ.sa.sjɔ̃\ |
| Letters | 12 |
| Frequency rank | #66,090 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « malversation » en français
Rare enough to double-check
malversation is uncommon French at frequency #66,090 among 5,038 “M” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \mal.vɛʁ.sa.sjɔ̃\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Faute grave commise par cupidité, dans l’exercice d’une charge, d’un emploi, dans l’exécution d’un mandat.".
malversation has no tracked misspelling variants, which points to an orthography that plays by predictable French rules. This headword has no recorded confusable partner, since no other headword is close enough in sound or shape to pair with it.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, so any spelling logic here comes from how the word's sounds map to letters, not a documented origin story. The correct French form is malversation, spelled M-A-L-V-E-R-S-A-T-I-O-N.
Definition
- 1Faute grave commise par cupidité, dans l’exercice d’une charge, d’un emploi, dans l’exécution d’un mandat.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how malversation appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Mais malgré les malversations des fonctionnaires et l’absence de tout contrôle, les finances publiques étaient prospères.
«Je n’ai pas manqué de jugement parce que dans toutes les situations où M. Laperrière a été impliqué, quatre situations, il n’y a eu aucune malversation, a-t-il dit.
Synonyms
This word in other languages
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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