mal d’amour
\mal da.muʁ\
The verdict
“mal d’amour” is uncommon French (outside the top frequency list), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency French
- 11
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - Manque d’amour, de personne à aimer, ou d’être aimé en retour.
Corpus desk
Index FR-mal-d-amour · mal d’amour · French
mal d’amour · unranked · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-UNRANKED Unranked
- LEN-MEGA 11 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-THIN "M" thin
- PHOTO-UNK Peer pending
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.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | mal d’amour |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \mal da.muʁ\ |
| Letters | 11 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “mal d’amour” sits in French frequency
Rare enough to double-check
mal d’amour is uncommon French outside the top frequency list, classed as anoun, transcribed \mal da.muʁ\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Manque d’amour, de personne à aimer, ou d’être aimé en retour.".
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for mal d’amour, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. This headword has no recorded confusable partner, which usually means its spelling is distinct enough that readers don't reach for a similar-looking word instead.
Our source data has no etymology on file for this entry, 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 mal d’amour, spelled M-A-L- -D-’-A-M-O-U-R.
Definition
- 1Manque d’amour, de personne à aimer, ou d’être aimé en retour.
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