maladie héréditaire
\ma.la.di e.ʁe.di.tɛʁ\
The verdict
“maladie héréditaire” is uncommon French (outside the top frequency list), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency French
- 19
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - Maladie due à une ou plusieurs anomalies sur un ou plusieurs chromosomes, qui est transmise par l’hérédité à la descendance, qui est présente dès la naissance, et qui entraine un défaut de fonction...
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | maladie héréditaire |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ma.la.di e.ʁe.di.tɛʁ\ |
| Letters | 19 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “maladie héréditaire” sits in French frequency
Rare enough to double-check
maladie héréditaire is uncommon French outside the top frequency list, classed as anoun, transcribed \ma.la.di e.ʁe.di.tɛʁ\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Maladie due à une ou plusieurs anomalies sur un ou plusieurs chromosomes, qui est transmise par l’hérédité à la descendance, qui est présente dès la naissance, et qui entraine un défaut de fonction...".
We couldn't generate a plausible misspelling set for maladie héréditaire, which points to an orthography that plays by predictable French rules. 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.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct French form is maladie héréditaire, spelled M-A-L-A-D-I-E- -H-É-R-É-D-I-T-A-I-R-E.
Definition
- 1Maladie due à une ou plusieurs anomalies sur un ou plusieurs chromosomes, qui est transmise par l’hérédité à la descendance, qui est présente dès la naissance, et qui entraine un défaut de fonctionnement de cellules précises de l’organisme.
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Definitions, pronunciation, and etymology for this entry are drawn from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org structured extract (CC BY-SA). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.
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Using “maladie héréditaire”
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- The one correct French spelling is M-A-L-A-D-I-E- -H-É-R-É-D-I-T-A-I-R-E - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
- Say it as \ma.la.di e.ʁe.di.tɛʁ\ (IPA); tap the speaker on the pronunciation badge to hear it where audio exists.
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Data Source
Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Word ordering uses an open word-frequency list; misspelling variants are generated by edit-distance from the correct headword.