maladie de Sandhoff

\ma.la.di də sɑ̃n.dɔf\

/\ma.la.di də sɑ̃n.dɔf\/ noun

The verdict

“maladie de Sandhoff” 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) - Forme sévère de la gangliosidose à GM2 chez l’enfant entraînant une destruction progressive du système nerveux central ; le pronostic de ce type de gangliosidose ne laisse une espérance de vie ne d...

Key facts for maladie de Sandhoff
PropertyValue
Headwordmaladie de Sandhoff
LanguageFrench
Part of speechNoun
IPA\ma.la.di də sɑ̃n.dɔf\
Letters19
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Where “maladie de Sandhoff” sits in French frequency

maladie de Sandhoff falls outside the top-100,000 ranked French words, the long-tail zone of technical, archaic, or low-frequency vocabulary, exactly where readers second-guess spellings most.

Beyond rank #100,000. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

Spelling & Dictionary Insight

The French entry for maladie de Sandhoff is 19 letters long, classified as a noun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \ma.la.di də sɑ̃n.dɔf\. 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: "Forme sévère de la gangliosidose à GM2 chez l’enfant entraînant une destruction progressive du système nerveux central ; le pronostic de ce type de gangliosidose ne laisse une espérance de vie ne d...".

No misspelling variants are generated for maladie de Sandhoff 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 Sandhoff, spelled M-A-L-A-D-I-E- -D-E- -S-A-N-D-H-O-F-F, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.

Definition

  1. 1
    Forme sévère de la gangliosidose à GM2 chez l’enfant entraînant une destruction progressive du système nerveux central ; le pronostic de ce type de gangliosidose ne laisse une espérance de vie ne dépassant pas quelques années.

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Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "maladie de Sandhoff"?
"maladie de Sandhoff" is spelled M-A-L-A-D-I-E- -D-E- -S-A-N-D-H-O-F-F. The IPA pronunciation is \ma.la.di də sɑ̃n.dɔf\.
What does "maladie de Sandhoff" mean?
As a noun, "maladie de Sandhoff" means: Forme sévère de la gangliosidose à GM2 chez l’enfant entraînant une destruction progressive du système nerveux central ; le pronostic de ce type de gangliosidose ne laisse une espérance de vie ne d...
How do you pronounce "maladie de Sandhoff"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "maladie de Sandhoff" is \ma.la.di də sɑ̃n.dɔf\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
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Using “maladie de Sandhoff”

The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.

  • The one correct French spelling is M-A-L-A-D-I-E- -D-E- -S-A-N-D-H-O-F-F - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
  • Say it as \ma.la.di də sɑ̃n.dɔf\ (IPA); tap the speaker on the pronunciation badge to hear it where audio exists.
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