misanthrope

/\mi.zɑ̃.tʁɔp\/ noun

Letters

11 characters

Frequency Rank

#33,347

in French word usage

Misspellings

17

tracked variants

Confusables

0

similar word pairs

misanthrope is aFrenchnoun. It means: Personne qui éprouve de l’hostilité, voire de la haine envers le genre humain. Pronounced \mi.zɑ̃.tʁɔp\.

Key facts for misanthrope
PropertyValue
Headwordmisanthrope
LanguageFrench
Part of speechNoun
IPA\mi.zɑ̃.tʁɔp\
Letters11
Frequency rank#33,347
Misspellings tracked17
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Frequency rank visualization

Position of misanthrope in French word frequency (lower rank = more common)

Source: Wordfreq corpus

Spelling & Dictionary Insight

The French entry for misanthrope is 11 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \mi.zɑ̃.tʁɔp\. Corpus data places it at rank #33,347 in overall French word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it.Wiktionary records 2 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.

Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 17 documented wrong-spelling variants for misanthrope, with forms such as "imsanthrope", "miasnthrope", and "misanhtrope". Each variant represents a distinct typo pattern that appears often enough in corpora to be worth flagging, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution.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 misanthrope, spelled M-I-S-A-N-T-H-R-O-P-E, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.

Definition

  1. 1
    Personne qui éprouve de l’hostilité, voire de la haine envers le genre humain.
  2. 2
    Personne qui est d’humeur maussade, chagrine et qui fuit les relations avec les autres.

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Common misspellings

Also misspelled as: imsanthrope,miasnthrope,misanhtrope,misannthrope,misanthhrope,misanthorpe,misanthroep,misanthroppe,misanthrpoe,misanthrrope,misantrhope,misantthrope,misatnhrope,misnathrope,missanthrope,mmisanthrope,msianthrope

Misspelling Pattern Breakdown

Relative frequency of common misspelling types for misanthrope

Misspelling Variants of "misanthrope"

imsanthrope11miasnthrope11misanhtrope11misannthrope12misanthhrope12misanthorpe11misanthroep11misanthroppe12
Misspelling Variants of "misanthrope"

Frequency rank: #33,347 in French

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "misanthrope"?
"misanthrope" is spelled M-I-S-A-N-T-H-R-O-P-E. The IPA pronunciation is \mi.zɑ̃.tʁɔp\.
What does "misanthrope" mean?
As a noun, "misanthrope" means: Personne qui éprouve de l’hostilité, voire de la haine envers le genre humain.
What are common misspellings of "misanthrope"?
Common misspellings include "imsanthrope", "miasnthrope", "misanhtrope", "misannthrope", "misanthhrope". The correct spelling is "misanthrope".
How do you pronounce "misanthrope"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "misanthrope" is \mi.zɑ̃.tʁɔp\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "misanthrope" come from?
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Data Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Frequency data from Wordfreq. Misspellings derived from Hunspell dictionaries.