fièvre de Malte
\fjɛvʁ də malt\
The verdict
“fièvre de Malte” is uncommon French (outside the top frequency list), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency French
- 15
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Synonyme de brucellose.
Corpus desk
Index FR-fievre-de-malte · fièvre de Malte · French
fièvre de Malte · unranked · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-UNRANKED Unranked
- LEN-MEGA 15 letters
- VOW-6 6 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-THIN "F" 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 | fièvre de Malte |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \fjɛvʁ də malt\ |
| Letters | 15 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
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Rare enough to double-check
fièvre de Malte is uncommon French outside the top frequency list, classed as anoun, transcribed \fjɛvʁ də malt\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Synonyme de brucellose.".
fièvre de Malte doesn't appear in our generated misspelling index, a sign its spelling follows regular French conventions. We don't track a confusable pairing for this entry, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
No documented word history exists for this headword, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct French form is fièvre de Malte, spelled F-I-È-V-R-E- -D-E- -M-A-L-T-E.
Definition
- 1Synonyme de brucellose.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how fièvre de Malte appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
21 septembre 1940 – Pater a un point de congestion. Depuis deux ans, il « nous » a fait des furoncles, il s’est cassé le péroné en traversant la rue, il s’est coupé le bout du doigt en refermant la capote de la Viva sur le bac de Saint-Nazaire, loin de toute pharmacie, bien entendu… et il attrapé une maladie rarissisme : la fièvre de Malte.
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.