mal dans sa peau
\mal dɑ̃ sa po\
The verdict
“mal dans sa peau” is outside the top-ranked French vocabulary, used as an adverb - the kind of word writers most often double-check.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency French
- 16
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - Pas confiant, pas maitre de soi, mal à l’aise.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | mal dans sa peau |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adverb |
| IPA | \mal dɑ̃ sa po\ |
| Letters | 16 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “mal dans sa peau” sits in French frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for mal dans sa peau is 16 letters long, classified as an adverb, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \mal dɑ̃ sa po\. It sits outside the most-frequent rank tiers, which is often why uncommon words generate more spelling variants per reader. The dominant gloss from Wiktionary reads: "Pas confiant, pas maitre de soi, mal à l’aise.".
No misspelling variants are generated for mal dans sa peau in our index, suggesting the orthography follows predictable French patterns. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. For readers arriving here from a spelling check, the authoritative guidance is: the correct French form is mal dans sa peau, spelled M-A-L- -D-A-N-S- -S-A- -P-E-A-U, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Pas confiant, pas maitre de soi, mal à l’aise.
Antonyms
Definitions, pronunciation, and etymology for this entry are drawn from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org structured extract (CC BY-SA). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.
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Using “mal dans sa peau”
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- The one correct French spelling is M-A-L- -D-A-N-S- -S-A- -P-E-A-U - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
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