maladie des caissons

/\ma.la.di de kɛ.sɔ̃\/ noun

Letters

20 characters

Language

French

word origin

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maladie des caissons is aFrenchnoun. It means: Pathologie provoquée à la suite d'une brusque et rapide baisse de la pression atmosphérique. Pronounced \ma.la.di de kɛ.sɔ̃\.

Key facts for maladie des caissons
PropertyValue
Headwordmaladie des caissons
LanguageFrench
Part of speechNoun
IPA\ma.la.di de kɛ.sɔ̃\
Letters20
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Frequency rank visualization

maladie des caissons is not present in the top-100,000 ranked French corpus, typical for technical, archaic, or low-frequency vocabulary.

Source: Wordfreq corpus

Spelling & Dictionary Insight

The French entry for maladie des caissons is 20 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \ma.la.di de kɛ.sɔ̃\. 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: "Pathologie provoquée à la suite d'une brusque et rapide baisse de la pression atmosphérique.".

No frequent misspelling variants are recorded for maladie des caissons in our index, suggesting the orthography either follows predictable French patterns or the word is uncommon enough that typo corpora lack signal.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 des caissons, spelled M-A-L-A-D-I-E- -D-E-S- -C-A-I-S-S-O-N-S, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.

Definition

  1. 1
    Pathologie provoquée à la suite d'une brusque et rapide baisse de la pression atmosphérique.

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Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "maladie des caissons"?
"maladie des caissons" is spelled M-A-L-A-D-I-E- -D-E-S- -C-A-I-S-S-O-N-S. The IPA pronunciation is \ma.la.di de kɛ.sɔ̃\.
What does "maladie des caissons" mean?
As a noun, "maladie des caissons" means: Pathologie provoquée à la suite d'une brusque et rapide baisse de la pression atmosphérique.
How do you pronounce "maladie des caissons"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "maladie des caissons" is \ma.la.di de kɛ.sɔ̃\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "maladie des caissons" come from?
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Data Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Frequency data from Wordfreq. Misspellings derived from Hunspell dictionaries.