mal-mâchoire
\mal maʃwaʁ\
The verdict
“mal-mâchoire” is uncommon French (outside the top frequency list), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency French
- 12
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Tétanos
Corpus desk
Index FR-mal-machoire · mal-mâchoire · French
mal-mâchoire · unranked · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-UNRANKED Unranked
- LEN-MEGA 12 letters
- VOW-5 5 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 | mal-mâchoire |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \mal maʃwaʁ\ |
| Letters | 12 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
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Rare enough to double-check
mal-mâchoire is uncommon French outside the top frequency list, classed as anoun, transcribed \mal maʃwaʁ\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Tétanos".
mal-mâchoire doesn't appear in our generated misspelling index, typically a sign the spelling maps closely to how the word sounds. 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.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, so any spelling logic here comes from how the word's sounds map to letters, not a documented origin story. The correct French form is mal-mâchoire, spelled M-A-L---M-Â-C-H-O-I-R-E.
Definition
- 1Tétanos
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