maladie de poitrine
\ma.la.di də pwa.tʁin\
The verdict
“maladie de poitrine” 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
- 19
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - Affection pouvant avoir diverses causes et prendre diverses formes (fluxion de poitrine, pleurésie, phtisie, tuberculose pulmonaire, etc.)
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | maladie de poitrine |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ma.la.di də pwa.tʁin\ |
| Letters | 19 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “maladie de poitrine” sits in French frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for maladie de poitrine is 19 letters long, classified as a noun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \ma.la.di də pwa.tʁin\. It sits outside the most-frequent rank tiers, which is often why uncommon words generate more spelling variants per reader. Wiktionary records 2 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
No misspelling variants are generated for maladie de poitrine 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 maladie de poitrine, spelled M-A-L-A-D-I-E- -D-E- -P-O-I-T-R-I-N-E, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Affection pouvant avoir diverses causes et prendre diverses formes (fluxion de poitrine, pleurésie, phtisie, tuberculose pulmonaire, etc.)
- 2Silicose.
Synonyms
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