malfaçon
French, noun/mal.fa.sɔ̃/
malfaçon is spelled M-A-L-F-A-Ç-O-N (8 letters) and appears about once in every 11 million words in written French, the 107,057th most frequent French word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Malfaçon is a French feminine noun meaning “fault” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Mauvaise exécution, défaut d’un ouvrage”.
What does malfaçon mean in English?
noun
- 1
femininefault
Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How French dictionaries define it
noun: 1. Mauvaise exécution, défaut d’un ouvrage.
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 malfaçon
- malfaçons plural
Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce malfaçon?
- /mal.fa.sɔ̃/
- \mal.fa.sɔ̃\
Sources: English Wiktionary, French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
How common is malfaçon in French?
malfaçon appears about once in every 11 million words in written French.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).