maladie de Sandhoff
\ma.la.di də sɑ̃n.dɔf\
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...
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | maladie de Sandhoff |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ma.la.di də sɑ̃n.dɔf\ |
| Letters | 19 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “maladie de Sandhoff” sits in French frequency
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
- 1Forme 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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- 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.
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