malade de la gâchette
\ma.lad də la ɡa.ʃɛt\
The verdict
“malade de la gâchette” 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
- 21
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - Individu qui peut facilement tirer avec une arme à feu, sans se poser trop de questions.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | malade de la gâchette |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ma.lad də la ɡa.ʃɛt\ |
| Letters | 21 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “malade de la gâchette” sits in French frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for malade de la gâchette is 21 letters long, classified as a noun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \ma.lad də la ɡa.ʃɛt\. 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: "Individu qui peut facilement tirer avec une arme à feu, sans se poser trop de questions.".
No misspelling variants are generated for malade de la gâchette 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 malade de la gâchette, spelled M-A-L-A-D-E- -D-E- -L-A- -G-Â-C-H-E-T-T-E, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Individu qui peut facilement tirer avec une arme à feu, sans se poser trop de questions.
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-A-D-E- -D-E- -L-A- -G-Â-C-H-E-T-T-E - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
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