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A malapropism is an act or habit of misusing words ridiculously, especially by the confusion of words that are similar in sound.

The word malapropism is derived from the French phrase mal à propos (literally meaning "ill to the purpose"). The term comes from the name of a character, Mrs. Malaprop, in Richard Brinsley Sheridan's comedy The Rivals(1775).