malgré
Letters
6 characters
Frequency Rank
#556
in French word usage
Misspellings
10
tracked variants
Confusables
20
similar word pairs
malgré is aFrenchprep. It means: Contre le vouloir de quelqu’un, contre le gré de. Pronounced \mal.ɡʁe\. It ranks #556 in French word frequency. Often confused with mare and mange.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | malgré |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Prep |
| IPA | \mal.ɡʁe\ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #556 |
| Misspellings tracked | 10 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for malgré is 6 letters long, classified as aprep, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \mal.ɡʁe\. Corpus data places it at rank #556 in overall French word frequency, putting it firmly in the everyday core of the language.Wiktionary records 3 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our generated misspelling index lists 10 likely wrong-spelling variants for malgré, with forms such as "amlgré", "maglré", and "malggré". Each variant is a distinct typo pattern an edit-distance generator flags, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution.It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "mare", "mange", "marge", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
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 malgré, spelled M-A-L-G-R-É, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Contre le vouloir de quelqu’un, contre le gré de.
- 2En dépit d’un objet faisant obstacle ou contrariant l’action.
- 3En dépit d’une considération abstraite susceptible d’en modifier l’appréciation.
Synonyms
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Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: amlgré,maglré,malggré,malgre,malgrré,malgér,mallgré,malrgé,mlagré,mmalgré
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
Relative frequency of common misspelling types for malgré
Misspelling Variants of "malgré"
Frequency rank: #556 in French
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Nearby French words
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