malséance
\mal.se.ɑ̃s\
The verdict
“malséance” is uncommon French (outside the top frequency list), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency French
- 9
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Qualité de ce qui est malséant.
Corpus desk
Index FR-malseance · malséance · French
malséance · unranked · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-UNRANKED Unranked
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-THIN "M" thin
- PHOTO-UNK Peer pending
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.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | malséance |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \mal.se.ɑ̃s\ |
| Letters | 9 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « malséance » en français
Rare enough to double-check
malséance is uncommon French outside the top frequency list, classed as anoun, transcribed \mal.se.ɑ̃s\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Qualité de ce qui est malséant.".
Zero misspellings are on record for malséance in our index, a sign its spelling follows regular French conventions. Our confusable-pair dataset has no match for it, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
No borrowing history is documented for this entry, so any spelling logic here comes from how the word's sounds map to letters, not a documented origin story. The correct French form is malséance, spelled M-A-L-S-É-A-N-C-E.
Definition
- 1Qualité de ce qui est malséant.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how malséance appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
La malséance d’un vêtement était pour Lafcadio choquante autant que pour le calviniste un mensonge.
Il [Alfred Vallette] trouve très bien que, ayant exprimé, dans ce volume [“Mon combat”], des choses désagréables pour les Français, plus même peut-être que désagréables, mais les ayant exprimées pour être lues par des Allemands, il [Adolf Hitler] ne veuille pas commettre la malséance d'aller les leur dire chez eux.
Antonyms
Definitions, pronunciation, and etymology for this entry are drawn from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org structured extract (CC BY-SA). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.