Which to use
“malienne” and “maliennes” are a confusable French pair: similar on the page, but distinct in meaning, check the gloss before you choose.
- #21,687
- “malienne” frequency rank
- #40,364
- “maliennes” frequency rank
- 62051
- confusion score
Side-by-Side Comparison
| Feature | malienne | maliennes |
|---|---|---|
| Definition | Féminin singulier de malien. | Féminin pluriel de malien. |
Same sound, different letters: malienne vs maliennes
Muted letters are shared; highlighted letters are the only spelling cue when pronunciation matches. Shared run: 8 letters. malienne runs 8 letters (CVCVVCCV) against maliennes's 9 (CVCVVCCVC) - the length gap alone is often enough to separate them once you know to check it.
Same sound, different spelling - malienne / maliennes
This is the hard kind. malienne and maliennes are pronounced identically (\ma.ljɛn\) and both work as anadjective. Neither the ear nor the grammar will rescue you; only the meaning does, so the glosses below are the whole decision. They differ by 1 extra letter(s) - “malienne” sits inside “maliennes”. Our composite confusion score for this pair is 62051, derived from the frequency rank of both members and their visual similarity.
malienne is recorded at frequency rank #21,687, classified as anadj, pronounced \ma.ljɛn\. maliennes is at rank #40,364, tagged as anadj, pronounced \ma.ljɛn\.
Glosses for this pair are partially populated in our dataset, but the full side-by-side definitions above should still guide you to the right choice.
With a confusion score of 62051, this pair ranks #89,102 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs - among the most confusable pairs.
Orthographic DNA of malienne vs maliennes
Shared letters: aeilmn. Private to "malienne": -. Private to "maliennes": s.
"malienne" · 8 letters · shape CVCVVCCV · "maliennes" · 9 letters · shape CVCVVCCVC
Known mistypes of this pair
Frequently Asked Questions
Do "malienne" and "maliennes" mean the same thing in a sentence?
In ordinary French text, does "malienne" or "maliennes" show up more?
After this comparison
Sound matches; spelling doesn't. Use the exits below to lock the right form or check a cousin pair.
- Full dictionary entry for "malienne" with definition, IPA, and generated misspellings. Word entry
- Full dictionary entry for "maliennes" - compare definitions side by side with the headword page. Word entry
- This pair ranks #89,102 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs in this corpus vintage. Corpus statistics
- "malienne" and "maliennes" also get mixed up with nearby pairs, the highest-scored neighbour is "maliennes vs malignes". Nearby pair
- Recorded mistypes exist for at least one side of this pair, useful when a spell-checker or OCR lands on the wrong form. See mistypes
Confusion rank #89,102 of 440,172 scored French pairs, corpus vintage 2026-09-03, not spelling advice.