mauvaiseté
\mo.vɛz.te\
The verdict
“mauvaiseté” is uncommon French (outside the top frequency list), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency French
- 10
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Caractère mauvais d’une chose ou d’une personne.
Corpus desk
Index FR-mauvaisete · mauvaiseté · French
mauvaiseté · unranked · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-UNRANKED Unranked
- LEN-MEGA 10 letters
- VOW-6 6 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 | mauvaiseté |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \mo.vɛz.te\ |
| Letters | 10 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
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Rare enough to double-check
mauvaiseté is uncommon French outside the top frequency list, classed as anoun, transcribed \mo.vɛz.te\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
mauvaiseté doesn't appear in our generated misspelling index, since its letter pattern doesn't lend itself to common typo substitutions. Our dataset records no confusable match here, a sign it's visually distinctive enough not to be mixed up with another word.
No borrowing history is documented for this entry, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct French form is mauvaiseté, spelled M-A-U-V-A-I-S-E-T-É.
Definition
- 1Caractère mauvais d’une chose ou d’une personne.
- 2Acte ou parole ayant pour but de nuire, de blesser. → voir méchanceté
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how mauvaiseté appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Cette mauvaiseté d’enfant chagrina beaucoup Landry.
Je meurs, je me décompose dans la platitude, dans la mauvaiseté, dans la grisaille.
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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.