malignité
French, noun/ma.li.ɲi.te/
malignité is spelled M-A-L-I-G-N-I-T-É (9 letters) and appears about once in every 8 million words in written French, the 93,632nd most frequent French word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Malignité is a French feminine noun meaning “malice, spite” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Disposition à faire du mal à autrui, à en penser, à en dire du mal”.
What does malignité mean in English?
noun
- 1
femininemalice, spite
- 2
femininemalignancy
Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How French dictionaries define it
noun: 1. Disposition à faire du mal à autrui, à en penser, à en dire du mal. 2. Qualité nuisible, dangereuse que renferme une chose. 3. Disposition à plaisanter, à s’égayer aux dépens d’autrui.
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 malignité
- malignités plural
Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce malignité?
- /ma.li.ɲi.te/
- \ma.li.ɲi.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 malignité
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is malignité in French?
malignité appears about once in every 8 million words in written French.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).