mauvaise volonté
\mɔ.vɛz vo.lɔ̃.te\
The verdict
“mauvaise volonté” is uncommon French (outside the top frequency list), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency French
- 16
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Absence flagrante de volonté de bien faire ou d’être serviable.
Corpus desk
Index FR-mauvaise-volonte · mauvaise volonté · French
mauvaise volonté · unranked · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-UNRANKED Unranked
- LEN-MEGA 16 letters
- VOW-8 8 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 | mauvaise volonté |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \mɔ.vɛz vo.lɔ̃.te\ |
| Letters | 16 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
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mauvaise volonté is uncommon French outside the top frequency list, classed as anoun, transcribed \mɔ.vɛz vo.lɔ̃.te\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Absence flagrante de volonté de bien faire ou d’être serviable.".
mauvaise volonté doesn't appear in our generated misspelling index, since its letter sequence doesn't invite the usual edit-distance slips. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, since no other headword is close enough in sound or shape to pair with it.
This entry's etymology isn't recorded, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. The correct French form is mauvaise volonté, spelled M-A-U-V-A-I-S-E- -V-O-L-O-N-T-É.
Definition
- 1Absence flagrante de volonté de bien faire ou d’être serviable.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how mauvaise volonté appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
La mauvaise volonté des événements s’était annoncée de longue date.
C'était un grand Noir filiforme qui semblait plein de nonchalance et de mauvaise volonté, bien qu'il portât une tunique à boutons et des culottes de nègre de maison.
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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.