malware
\mal.wɛʁ\
The verdict
“malware” has 10 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #41,398. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #41,398
- frequency rank, French
- 5,038
- “M” headwords
- 10
- tracked misspellings
- 2
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Programme ou partie de programme destiné à perturber, altérer ou détruire tout ou partie des éléments logiques indispensables au bon fonctionnement d’un système informatique.
Corpus desk
Index FR-malware · malware · French
malware · rank #41,398 · 10 variants · 2 confusables
- FREQ-MID #41,398
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-LOW 2 pairs
- VAR-MID 10 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,038
- PHOTO-FINISH mandarine
Nearest frequency peer: mandarine (+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 « malware »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- lumia
lumia
58,608 corpus weight
- Magda
Magda
58,606 corpus weight
- Mallory
Mallory
58,605 corpus weight
- malware
malware
58,603 corpus weight
- mandarine
mandarine
58,602 corpus weight
- marnes
marnes
58,600 corpus weight
What this shows « malware » 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 | malware |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \mal.wɛʁ\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #41,398 |
| Misspellings tracked | 10 |
| Confusable pairs | 2 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « malware »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 10 spelling variants around malware (IPA \mal.wɛʁ\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #41,398 among 5,038 “M” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Programme ou partie de programme destiné à perturber, altérer ou détruire tout ou partie des éléments logiques indispensables au bon fonctionnement d’un système informatique.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 10 likely wrong-spelling variants for malware, with forms such as "amlware", "malawre", and "mallware". Each of these forms differs from the correct spelling by one small edit: a doubled letter, a dropped silent letter, or a substituted vowel. It also participates in 2 confusable-pair relationships, "malgré", "malade", where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
This entry carries no recorded etymology, 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 malware, spelled M-A-L-W-A-R-E.
Definition
- 1Programme ou partie de programme destiné à perturber, altérer ou détruire tout ou partie des éléments logiques indispensables au bon fonctionnement d’un système informatique.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how malware appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Mais jusque-là, les principaux accusés étaient les PC individuels, mal protégés et enrôlés incognito dans ces botnets, réseaux d’ordinateurs fantômes passés sous le contrôle d’un malware.
Synonyms
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- amlware
- malawre
- mallware
- malwaer
- malwarre
- malwrae
- malwware
- mawlare
- mlaware
- mmalware
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of malware - 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 7 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (10 here; floor ≥5).