mal du roi

Spelling & Dictionary Insight

The French entry for mal du roi is 10 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \mal dy ʁwa\. 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: "Nom donné autrefois aux écrouelles, car les rois de France et d’Angleterre, traditionnellement réputés thaumaturges, étaient supposés, en touchant les malades, intercéder auprès de Dieu en faveur d...".

No misspelling variants are generated for mal du roi 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 du roi, spelled M-A-L- -D-U- -R-O-I, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.