médisance
\me.di.zɑ̃s\
The verdict
“médisance” is uncommon French (frequency #56,769 among 5,038 “M” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #56,769
- frequency rank, French
- 5,038
- “M” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Action de médire, de dire un mal de quelqu'un ou de quelque chose qui est réel dans le but de lui nuire. Ne pas confondre avec « calomnier » (dire du mal―sans fondements―de quelqu'un dans le but de...
Corpus desk
Index FR-medisance · médisance · French
médisance · rank #56,769 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #56,769
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,038
- PHOTO-FINISH Murano
Nearest frequency peer: Murano (-1 rank slots)
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.
Rangs de longue queue près de « médisance »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- Mulliez
Mulliez
43,235 corpus weight
- multijoueurs
multijoueurs
43,234 corpus weight
- Murano
Murano
43,233 corpus weight
- médisance
médisance
43,232 corpus weight
- Mélanchon
Mélanchon
43,231 corpus weight
- ménisque
ménisque
43,230 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « médisance » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | médisance |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \me.di.zɑ̃s\ |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #56,769 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « médisance » en français
Rare enough to double-check
médisance is uncommon French at frequency #56,769 among 5,038 “M” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \me.di.zɑ̃s\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 3 senses are on record.
No generated misspelling entries exist for médisance in our index, typically a sign the spelling maps closely to how the word sounds. This headword has no recorded confusable partner, a sign it's visually distinctive enough not to be mixed up with another word.
This entry carries no recorded etymology, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct French form is médisance, spelled M-É-D-I-S-A-N-C-E.
Definition
- 1Action de médire, de dire un mal de quelqu'un ou de quelque chose qui est réel dans le but de lui nuire. Ne pas confondre avec « calomnier » (dire du mal―sans fondements―de quelqu'un dans le but de lui nuire).
- 2Propos désavantageux.
- 3Les gens médisants.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how médisance appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Si l’absinthe est amère, la médisance est douce, — surtout quand la médisance est de la belle et bonne calomnie.
Il fuyait ces longs papotages où tout le monde, par la médisance savamment distillée, était habillé pour l'hiver.
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Definitions, pronunciation, and etymology for this entry are drawn from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org structured extract (CC BY-SA); frequency ordering uses the FrequencyWords open word-frequency list (2018 French corpus, MIT). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.
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