maladie

\ma.la.di\

/\ma.la.di\/ noun

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The verdict

“maladie” has 9 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #1,117. The variants make it a useful spelling check.

#1,117
frequency rank, French
5,038
“M” headwords
9
tracked misspellings
13
confusable pairs

According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Problème de santé chez un être vivant qui se traduit par une baisse des capacités physiques ou par un dysfonctionnement, une altération du métabolisme.

Corpus desk

Index FR-maladie · maladie · French

maladie · rank #1,117 · 9 variants · 13 confusables

  • FREQ-COMMON #1,117
  • LEN-LONG 7 letters
  • VOW-4 4 vowels
  • CONFUS-MID 13 pairs
  • VAR-MID 9 variants
  • BOOK-DENSE 5,038
  • PHOTO-FINISH industrie

Nearest frequency peer: industrie (-1 rank slots)

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.

Pairs de rang près de l'aimant d'erreurs « maladie »

Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin

corpus weight

What this shows « maladie » siège parmi ces pairs FrequencyWords; la profondeur des fautes est suivie à part dans le graphique d'édition.

Source FrequencyWords open word-frequency list As of September 3, 2026

Visual similarity to commonly confused words

How many letter changes separate each confused pair (Levenshtein distance, normalized).

maladie vs Malawi
57% similar
maladie vs malais
71% similar
maladie vs Mélanie
57% similar

Source: PlainSpell confusable corpus (Wiktionary, CC BY-SA).

Key facts for maladie
PropertyValue
Headwordmaladie
LanguageFrench
Part of speechNoun
IPA\ma.la.di\
Letters7
Frequency rank#1,117
Misspellings tracked9
Confusable pairs13
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « maladie »

La fréquence va de la poignée de mots du quotidien (gauche) à la longue queue presque jamais vue (droite).maladiese place ici:

#1#100#1K#10K#100K
← used constantlyrarely used →

Les tics avancent en logarithme; chacun est de l'ordre de dix fois plus rare. Dans la même bande de rareté figurent « industrie » (#1,116), « militaire » (#1,118), « historique » (#1,115). Parmi 5,038 lemmes en « M », « maladie » est au #1,117. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

A misspelling magnet

The generator records 9 spelling variants around maladie (IPA \ma.la.di\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #1,117 among 5,038 “M” headwords. Wiktionary lists 4 senses, so context still picks the gloss.

Our generated misspelling index lists 9 likely wrong-spelling variants for maladie, with forms such as "amladie", "maaldie", and "maladdie". Each of these forms differs from the correct spelling by one small edit: a doubled letter, a dropped silent letter, or a substituted vowel. It also participates in 13 confusable-pair relationships, "Malawi", "malais", "Mélanie", and more, a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.

This entry carries no recorded etymology, so its spelling is best read as a straightforward mapping from sound to letter. The correct French form is maladie, spelled M-A-L-A-D-I-E.

Definition

  1. 1
    Problème de santé chez un être vivant qui se traduit par une baisse des capacités physiques ou par un dysfonctionnement, une altération du métabolisme.
  2. 2
    (Précédé de l'article défini) Menstruations.
  3. 3
    Mal moral.
  4. 4
    Affection excessive pour quelque chose ; manie.

Recorded use

Wiktionary examples

These source excerpts show how maladie appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.

  1. De toutes les maladies, la plus sauvage, c'est de mépriser notre être.
  2. […] je ne voulais pas me faire à l’idée que mon père fût mort, et que plus jamais il ne reviendrait. Durant sa maladie, on m’avait défendu de pénétrer dans sa chambre, et il était parti sans que je l’eusse embrassé.

Synonyms

affectionaltérationatteintefragilitémalpathologietroubletare

This word in other languages

illness(English)enfermedad(Español)Krankheit(Deutsch)doença(Português)

Common misspellings

Also misspelled as:

  • amladie
  • maaldie
  • maladdie
  • maladei
  • malaide
  • maldaie
  • malladie
  • mlaadie
  • mmaladie

Misspelling Pattern Breakdown

How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of maladie - expressed in single-character edits (insert, delete, or swap one letter). Bigger bars stand out at a glance; a one-edit slip is the hardest to catch.

amladie2maaldie2maladdie1maladei2malaide2maldaie2malladie1mlaadie2
Edit distance from "maladie"

Definitions, pronunciation, and etymology for this entry are drawn from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org structured extract (CC BY-SA); frequency ordering uses the FrequencyWords open word-frequency list (2018 French corpus, MIT). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "maladie"?
"maladie" is spelled M-A-L-A-D-I-E. The IPA pronunciation is \ma.la.di\.
What does "maladie" mean?
As a noun, "maladie" means: Problème de santé chez un être vivant qui se traduit par une baisse des capacités physiques ou par un dysfonctionnement, une altération du métabolisme.
What words are commonly confused with "maladie"?
"maladie" is commonly confused with "Malawi", "malais", "Mélanie". These words look or sound similar but have different meanings. PlainSpell provides detailed comparisons for each pair.
How do you pronounce "maladie"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "maladie" is \ma.la.di\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "maladie" come from?
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Similar French words by spelling shape

Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "maladie", not the corpus desk frequency band.

Same letter count

Frequency-ranked French headwords with 7 letters (nearest by frequency rank).

médecin#1,120Espagne#1,111valeurs#1,127vouloir#1,129

Similar misspelling depth

Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (9 here; floor ≥5).

garder9 variantsPhilippe9 variantscinéma9 variantsancienne9 variants

Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org) Structured Wiktionary extract

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list