malvenue
\mal.və.ny\
The verdict
“malvenue” is uncommon French (frequency #80,398 among 5,038 “M” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #80,398
- frequency rank, French
- 5,038
- “M” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Mauvaise grâce, manifestation de mauvais vouloir, dans l’accueil de quelqu’un, dans l’acceptation d’une demande.
Corpus desk
Index FR-malvenue · malvenue · French
malvenue · rank #80,398 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #80,398
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,038
- PHOTO-FINISH malinké
Nearest frequency peer: malinké (-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 « malvenue »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- magnanimité
magnanimité
19,606 corpus weight
- magouilleur
magouilleur
19,605 corpus weight
- malinké
malinké
19,604 corpus weight
- malvenue
malvenue
19,603 corpus weight
- Manceaux
Manceaux
19,602 corpus weight
- manipulables
manipulables
19,600 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « malvenue » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | malvenue |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \mal.və.ny\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #80,398 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « malvenue » en français
Rare enough to double-check
malvenue is uncommon French at frequency #80,398 among 5,038 “M” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \mal.və.ny\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Mauvaise grâce, manifestation de mauvais vouloir, dans l’accueil de quelqu’un, dans l’acceptation d’une demande.".
The misspelling generator found no plausible variants for malvenue, a sign its spelling follows regular French conventions. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
This entry carries no recorded etymology, so its spelling pattern is best understood through pronunciation rather than a traceable origin. The correct French form is malvenue, spelled M-A-L-V-E-N-U-E.
Definition
- 1Mauvaise grâce, manifestation de mauvais vouloir, dans l’accueil de quelqu’un, dans l’acceptation d’une demande.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how malvenue appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Don fait avec pitié, mépris ou mal-venue (sic).
Antonyms
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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