Malagré
\ma.la.ɡʁe\
The verdict
“Malagré” is uncommon French (frequency #63,155 among 5,038 “M” headwords), classed as a proper noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #63,155
- frequency rank, French
- 5,038
- “M” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Nom de famille.
Corpus desk
Index FR-malagre · Malagré · French
Malagré · rank #63,155 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #63,155
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,038
- PHOTO-FINISH maintenaient
Nearest frequency peer: maintenaient (-1 rank slots)
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.
Rangs de longue queue près de « Malagré »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- magyar
magyar
36,849 corpus weight
- maintenaient
maintenaient
36,847 corpus weight
- Malagré
Malagré
36,846 corpus weight
- maori
maori
36,845 corpus weight
- maquillés
maquillés
36,844 corpus weight
- Marant
Marant
36,843 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « Malagré » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Malagré |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| IPA | \ma.la.ɡʁe\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #63,155 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « Malagré » en français
Rare enough to double-check
Malagré is uncommon French at frequency #63,155 among 5,038 “M” headwords, classed as aproper noun, transcribed \ma.la.ɡʁe\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Nom de famille.".
The misspelling generator found no plausible variants for Malagré, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. Our confusable-pair dataset has no match for it, since no other headword is close enough in sound or shape to pair with it.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, so its spelling pattern is best understood through pronunciation rather than a traceable origin. The correct French form is Malagré, spelled M-A-L-A-G-R-É.
Definition
- 1Nom de famille.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how Malagré appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Elle aussi est originaire de Morlaix, l’ex-chroniqueuse de TPMP Énora Malagré viendra peut-être prendre un bol d’air dans sa ville natale cet été.
Definitions, pronunciation, and etymology for this entry are drawn from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org structured extract (CC BY-SA); frequency ordering uses the FrequencyWords open word-frequency list (2018 French corpus, MIT). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.
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