malade
[maˈlaːdə]
The verdict
“malade” is uncommon German (outside the top frequency list), classed as an adjective. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency German
- 6
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - sich etwas krank fühlend, unpässlich
Corpus desk
Index DE-malade · malade · German
malade · unranked · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-UNRANKED Unranked
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-THIN "M" thin
- PHOTO-UNK Peer pending
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.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | malade |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | [maˈlaːdə] |
| Letters | 6 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Langschwanz-Rang von „malade“ im Deutschen
Rare enough to double-check
malade is uncommon German outside the top frequency list, classed as anadjective, transcribed [maˈlaːdə]. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "sich etwas krank fühlend, unpässlich".
Zero misspellings are on record for malade in our index, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. Our confusable-pair dataset has no match for it, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct German form is malade, spelled M-A-L-A-D-E.
Definition
- 1sich etwas krank fühlend, unpässlich
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how malade appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Weil er sich malade fühlte, blieb er zu Hause.
This word in other languages
Definitions, pronunciation, and etymology for this entry are drawn from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org structured extract (CC BY-SA). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.