inélégance
French, noun/i.ne.le.ɡɑ̃s/
inélégance is a French feminine noun meaning “inelegance” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Défaut d’élégance”.
What does inélégance mean in English?
noun
- 1
feminineinelegance
- 2
feminineclumsiness
Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How French dictionaries define it
noun: 1. Défaut d’élégance.
The definition in the French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire), in French.
Source: French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire), dump of September 1, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org.
Forms of inélégance
- inélégances plural
Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce inélégance?
- /i.ne.le.ɡɑ̃s/
- \i.ne.le.ɡɑ̃s\
Sources: English Wiktionary, French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
English words that translate to inélégance
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is inélégance in French?
inélégance appears about once in every 24 million words in written French.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).