mal de décompression
\mal də de.kɔ̃.pʁɛ.sjɔ̃\
The verdict
“mal de décompression” is outside the top-ranked French vocabulary, used as a noun - the kind of word writers most often double-check.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency French
- 20
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - Pathologie provoquée suite à une brusque et rapide baisse de la pression atmosphérique.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | mal de décompression |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \mal də de.kɔ̃.pʁɛ.sjɔ̃\ |
| Letters | 20 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “mal de décompression” sits in French frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for mal de décompression is 20 letters long, classified as a noun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \mal də de.kɔ̃.pʁɛ.sjɔ̃\. It sits outside the most-frequent rank tiers, which is often why uncommon words generate more spelling variants per reader. The dominant gloss from Wiktionary reads: "Pathologie provoquée suite à une brusque et rapide baisse de la pression atmosphérique.".
No misspelling variants are generated for mal de décompression in our index, suggesting the orthography follows predictable French patterns. 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 mal de décompression, spelled M-A-L- -D-E- -D-É-C-O-M-P-R-E-S-S-I-O-N, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Pathologie provoquée suite à une brusque et rapide baisse de la pression atmosphérique.
Synonyms
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- The one correct French spelling is M-A-L- -D-E- -D-É-C-O-M-P-R-E-S-S-I-O-N - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
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