malgrés
\mal.ɡʁe\
The verdict
“malgrés” is uncommon French (frequency #68,443 among 5,038 “M” headwords), classed as a preposition. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #68,443
- frequency rank, French
- 5,038
- “M” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Variante orthographique considérée fautive de malgré.
Corpus desk
Index FR-malgres · malgrés · French
malgrés · rank #68,443 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #68,443
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,038
- PHOTO-FINISH malouin
Nearest frequency peer: malouin (+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 « malgrés »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- magnetic
magnetic
31,560 corpus weight
- malgrés
malgrés
31,558 corpus weight
- malouin
malouin
31,557 corpus weight
- managérial
managérial
31,556 corpus weight
- manipulable
manipulable
31,555 corpus weight
- marignan
marignan
31,554 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « malgrés » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | malgrés |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Preposition |
| IPA | \mal.ɡʁe\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #68,443 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « malgrés » en français
Rare enough to double-check
malgrés is uncommon French at frequency #68,443 among 5,038 “M” headwords, classed as apreposition, transcribed \mal.ɡʁe\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Variante orthographique considérée fautive de malgré.".
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for malgrés, a straightforward case of a spelling with little room for common typos. 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.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, so its spelling is best read as a straightforward mapping from sound to letter. The correct French form is malgrés, spelled M-A-L-G-R-É-S.
Definition
- 1Variante orthographique considérée fautive de malgré.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how malgrés appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Mais les autorités ont accepté de pouvoir identifier ces morts malgrés les moyens qui manquent.
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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