Mauvaises Terres
\mo.vɛz tɛʁ\
The verdict
“Mauvaises Terres” is outside the top-ranked French vocabulary, used as a proper 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) - Territoire du Dakota du Nord traversé par le Missouri (constituant aujourd’hui les badlands du parc national Theodore Roosevelt), caractérisé par un relief torturé constitué de nombreux pics et but...
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Mauvaises Terres |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| IPA | \mo.vɛz tɛʁ\ |
| Letters | 16 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “Mauvaises Terres” sits in French frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for Mauvaises Terres is 16 letters long, classified as a proper noun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \mo.vɛz tɛʁ\. It sits outside the most-frequent rank tiers, which is often why uncommon words generate more spelling variants per reader. Wiktionary records 2 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
No misspelling variants are generated for Mauvaises Terres in our index, suggesting the orthography follows predictable French patterns. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. For readers arriving here from a spelling check, the authoritative guidance is: the correct French form is Mauvaises Terres, spelled M-A-U-V-A-I-S-E-S- -T-E-R-R-E-S, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Territoire du Dakota du Nord traversé par le Missouri (constituant aujourd’hui les badlands du parc national Theodore Roosevelt), caractérisé par un relief torturé constitué de nombreux pics et buttes.
- 2Nom donné à différents badlands des États-Unis, notamment dans le Dakota du Sud, mais aussi au Montana, Kansas, Wyoming, Oklahoma, etc.
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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- The one correct French spelling is M-A-U-V-A-I-S-E-S- -T-E-R-R-E-S - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
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