mauvais sort
\mo.vɛ sɔʁ\
The verdict
“mauvais sort” is outside the top-ranked French vocabulary, used as a noun - the kind of word writers most often double-check.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency French
- 12
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - Maléfice, sortilège jeté par une personne supposée avoir des pouvoirs surnaturels.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | mauvais sort |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \mo.vɛ sɔʁ\ |
| Letters | 12 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “mauvais sort” sits in French frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for mauvais sort is 12 letters long, classified as a noun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \mo.vɛ sɔʁ\. It sits outside the most-frequent rank tiers, which is often why uncommon words generate more spelling variants per reader. Wiktionary records 3 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
mauvais sort has no tracked misspelling variants, a sign its spelling follows regular French conventions. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, suggesting its spelling stands apart enough that readers rarely confuse it with something else.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct French form is mauvais sort, spelled M-A-U-V-A-I-S- -S-O-R-T.
Definition
- 1Maléfice, sortilège jeté par une personne supposée avoir des pouvoirs surnaturels.
- 2Destin contraire, malchance.
- 3Mauvais traitement fait à quelqu’un ou quelque chose.
This word in other languages
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.
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Using “mauvais sort”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct French spelling is M-A-U-V-A-I-S- -S-O-R-T - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
- Say it as \mo.vɛ sɔʁ\ (IPA); tap the speaker on the pronunciation badge to hear it where audio exists.
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Data Source
Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Word ordering uses an open word-frequency list; misspelling variants are generated by edit-distance from the correct headword.