malpropreté
French, noun/mal.pʁɔ.pʁə.te/
malpropreté is spelled M-A-L-P-R-O-P-R-E-T-É (11 letters) and appears about once in every 11 million words in written French, the 110,748th most frequent French word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Malpropreté is a French feminine noun meaning “uncleanliness, dirtiness, filthiness” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Défaut de propreté, saleté”.
What does malpropreté mean in English?
noun
- 1
feminineuncleanliness, dirtiness, filthiness
Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How French dictionaries define it
noun: 1. Défaut de propreté, saleté. 2. Parole ou action contraire à la morale, à l’honnêteté.
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 malpropreté
- malpropretés plural
Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce malpropreté?
- /mal.pʁɔ.pʁə.te/
- \mal.pʁɔ.pʁə.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 malpropreté
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is malpropreté in French?
malpropreté appears about once in every 11 million words in written French.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).