malgré tout

/\mal.ɡʁe tu\/ adv

Letters

11 characters

Language

French

word origin

Misspellings

0

tracked variants

Confusables

0

similar word pairs

malgré tout is anFrenchadv. It means: Quoi qu’on fasse, quoi qu’il arrive, quoi qu’on en dise. Pronounced \mal.ɡʁe tu\.

Key facts for malgré tout
PropertyValue
Headwordmalgré tout
LanguageFrench
Part of speechAdv
IPA\mal.ɡʁe tu\
Letters11
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Frequency rank visualization

malgré tout is not present in the top-100,000 ranked French corpus, typical for technical, archaic, or low-frequency vocabulary.

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list

Spelling & Dictionary Insight

The French entry for malgré tout is 11 letters long, classified as anadv, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \mal.ɡʁe tu\. 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: "Quoi qu’on fasse, quoi qu’il arrive, quoi qu’on en dise.".

No misspelling variants are generated for malgré tout 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 malgré tout, spelled M-A-L-G-R-É- -T-O-U-T, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.

Definition

  1. 1
    Quoi qu’on fasse, quoi qu’il arrive, quoi qu’on en dise.

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Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "malgré tout"?
"malgré tout" is spelled M-A-L-G-R-É- -T-O-U-T. The IPA pronunciation is \mal.ɡʁe tu\.
What does "malgré tout" mean?
As an adv, "malgré tout" means: Quoi qu’on fasse, quoi qu’il arrive, quoi qu’on en dise.
How do you pronounce "malgré tout"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "malgré tout" is \mal.ɡʁe tu\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "malgré tout" come from?
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Data Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Word ordering uses an open word-frequency list; misspelling variants are generated by edit-distance from the correct headword.