malade mental
\ma.lad mɑ̃.tal\
The verdict
“malade mental” is uncommon French (outside the top frequency list), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency French
- 13
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Personne ayant des problèmes psychiatriques.
Corpus desk
Index FR-malade-mental · malade mental · French
malade mental · unranked · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-UNRANKED Unranked
- LEN-MEGA 13 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 | malade mental |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ma.lad mɑ̃.tal\ |
| Letters | 13 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « malade mental » en français
Rare enough to double-check
malade mental is uncommon French outside the top frequency list, classed as anoun, transcribed \ma.lad mɑ̃.tal\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
Zero misspellings are on record for malade mental in our index, a straightforward case of a spelling with little room for common typos. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, a sign it's visually distinctive enough not to be mixed up with another word.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, 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 malade mental, spelled M-A-L-A-D-E- -M-E-N-T-A-L.
Definition
- 1Personne ayant des problèmes psychiatriques.
- 2Terme d’insulte servant à désigner une personne considérée comme idiote, et spécialement comme dangereuse.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how malade mental appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
L’auteur porte ici son attention sur l’importance pratique que doit avoir l’étude psychologique des états intermédiaires entre l’homme normal et le malade mental.
Pour les malades mentaux, les mots, de même que les objets, vivent autant que les gens ou les animaux.
Synonyms
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.