maladie infectieuse
\ma.la.di ɛ̃.fɛk.sjøz\
The verdict
“maladie infectieuse” 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 qui a la faculté de se transmettre d’un individu à l’autre par toutes sortes de moyens (contact physique ou sexuel, respiration, contact d’objets…), le vecteur de transmission pouvant être ...
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | maladie infectieuse |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ma.la.di ɛ̃.fɛk.sjøz\ |
| Letters | 19 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “maladie infectieuse” sits in French frequency
Rare enough to double-check
maladie infectieuse is uncommon French outside the top frequency list, classed as anoun, transcribed \ma.la.di ɛ̃.fɛk.sjøz\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Maladie qui a la faculté de se transmettre d’un individu à l’autre par toutes sortes de moyens (contact physique ou sexuel, respiration, contact d’objets…), le vecteur de transmission pouvant être ...".
No misspelling variants are generated for maladie infectieuse in our index, a straightforward case of a spelling with little room for common typos. This entry stands alone in our confusable dataset, a sign it's visually distinctive enough not to be mixed up with another word.
No documented word history exists for this headword, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. The correct French form is maladie infectieuse, spelled M-A-L-A-D-I-E- -I-N-F-E-C-T-I-E-U-S-E.
Definition
- 1Maladie qui a la faculté de se transmettre d’un individu à l’autre par toutes sortes de moyens (contact physique ou sexuel, respiration, contact d’objets…), le vecteur de transmission pouvant être : virus, bactérie, parasite, champignon ou prion.
This word in other languages
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 infectieuse”
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- The one correct French spelling is M-A-L-A-D-I-E- -I-N-F-E-C-T-I-E-U-S-E - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
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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.