mésalliance
French, noun/me.za.ljɑ̃s/
mésalliance is spelled M-É-S-A-L-L-I-A-N-C-E (11 letters) and appears about once in every 12 million words in written French, the 113,280th most frequent French word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Mésalliance is a French feminine noun meaning “misalliance, mésalliance” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Alliance, mariage avec une personne d’une condition fort inférieure à celle de la personne qui l’épouse”.
What does mésalliance mean in English?
noun
- 1
femininemisalliance, mésalliance
Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How French dictionaries define it
noun: 1. Alliance, mariage avec une personne d’une condition fort inférieure à celle de la personne qui l’épouse.
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 mésalliance
- mésalliances plural
Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce mésalliance?
- /me.za.ljɑ̃s/
- \me.za.ljɑ̃s\
Sources: English Wiktionary, French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
English words that translate to mésalliance
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is mésalliance in French?
mésalliance appears about once in every 12 million words in written French.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).