mauvaise volonté
\mɔ.vɛz vo.lɔ̃.te\
The verdict
“mauvaise volonté” 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
- 16
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - Absence flagrante de volonté de bien faire ou d’être serviable.
| 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) |
Where “mauvaise volonté” sits in French frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for mauvaise volonté is 16 letters long, classified as a noun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \mɔ.vɛz vo.lɔ̃.te\. It sits outside the most-frequent rank tiers, which is often why uncommon words generate more spelling variants per reader. The dominant gloss from Wiktionary reads: "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.
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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.
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Using “mauvaise volonté”
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- The one correct French spelling is M-A-U-V-A-I-S-E- -V-O-L-O-N-T-É - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
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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.