mal des mâchoires
\mal.dɛ.ma.ʃwaʁ\
The verdict
“mal des mâchoires” 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
- 17
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - Ancien nom donné au tétanos.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | mal des mâchoires |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \mal.dɛ.ma.ʃwaʁ\ |
| Letters | 17 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “mal des mâchoires” sits in French frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for mal des mâchoires is 17 letters long, classified as a noun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \mal.dɛ.ma.ʃwaʁ\. 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: "Ancien nom donné au tétanos.".
No misspelling variants are generated for mal des mâchoires 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 des mâchoires, spelled M-A-L- -D-E-S- -M-Â-C-H-O-I-R-E-S, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Ancien nom donné au tétanos.
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.
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- The one correct French spelling is M-A-L- -D-E-S- -M-Â-C-H-O-I-R-E-S - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
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