méconnaissance
French, noun/me.kɔ.nɛ.sɑ̃s/
méconnaissance is spelled M-É-C-O-N-N-A-I-S-S-A-N-C-E (14 letters) and appears 2.1 times per million words in written French, the 19,772nd most frequent French word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Méconnaissance is a French feminine noun meaning “unawareness” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “État de mal connaître, de méconnaître”.
What does méconnaissance mean in English?
noun
- 1
feminineunawareness
Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How French dictionaries define it
noun: 1. État de mal connaître, de méconnaître.
The definition in the French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire), in French.
Source: French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire), dump of September 1, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org.
Forms of méconnaissance
- méconnaissances plural
Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce méconnaissance?
- /me.kɔ.nɛ.sɑ̃s/
- /me.kɔ.ne.sɑ̃s/
- \me.kɔ.nɛ.sɑ̃s\
Sources: English Wiktionary, French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
English words that translate to méconnaissance
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is méconnaissance in French?
méconnaissance appears 2.1 times per million words in written French.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).