méchanceté
French, noun/me.ʃɑ̃s.te/
méchanceté is a French feminine noun meaning “nastiness, malice, wickedness” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Penchant à faire du mal ; mauvaiseté”.
What does méchanceté mean in English?
noun
- 1
femininenastiness, malice, wickedness
Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How French dictionaries define it
noun: 1. Penchant à faire du mal ; mauvaiseté. 2. Opiniâtreté des enfants. 3. Action méchante. 4. Parole médisante, parole dite dans l’intention de nuire, d’offenser.
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 méchanceté
- méchancetés plural
Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce méchanceté?
- /me.ʃɑ̃s.te/
- \me.ʃɑ̃s.te\
Sources: English Wiktionary, French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
English words that translate to méchanceté
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is méchanceté in French?
méchanceté appears 2.8 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).