malhonnêteté
French, noun/ma.lɔ.nɛt.te/
malhonnêteté is spelled M-A-L-H-O-N-N-Ê-T-E-T-É (12 letters) and appears about once in every 1 million words in written French, the 32,322nd most frequent French word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Malhonnêteté is a French feminine noun meaning “dishonesty” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Défaut d’honnêteté, de probité”.
What does malhonnêteté mean in English?
noun
- 1
femininedishonesty
Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How French dictionaries define it
noun: 1. Défaut d’honnêteté, de probité. 2. Incivilité, manque de bienséance. 3. Paroles et des actions inciviles.
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 malhonnêteté
- malhonnêtetés plural
Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce malhonnêteté?
- /ma.lɔ.nɛt.te/
- \ma.lɔ.nɛt.te\
Sources: English Wiktionary, French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
English words that translate to malhonnêteté
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is malhonnêteté in French?
malhonnêteté appears about once in every 1 million words in written French.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).