maladie du cri du chat

Spelling & Dictionary Insight

The French entry for maladie du cri du chat is 22 letters long, classified as a noun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \ma.la.di dy kʁi dy ʃa\. 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: "Trouble génétique rare dû à une délétion d’une partie du chromosome 5 ; la majorité des enfants meurent pendant leur enfance, les survivants ont un profond retard mental.".

No misspelling variants are generated for maladie du cri du chat 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 du cri du chat, spelled M-A-L-A-D-I-E- -D-U- -C-R-I- -D-U- -C-H-A-T, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.