maladrerie
\ma.lad.ʁə.ʁi\
The verdict
“maladrerie” is uncommon French (frequency #85,904 among 5,038 “M” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #85,904
- frequency rank, French
- 5,038
- “M” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Léproserie.
Corpus desk
Index FR-maladrerie · maladrerie · French
maladrerie · rank #85,904 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #85,904
- LEN-MEGA 10 letters
- VOW-5 5 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,038
- PHOTO-FINISH majo
Nearest frequency peer: majo (-1 rank slots)
Desk codes from Wiktionary headword shape, FrequencyWords rank tier, confusable-pair count, generated misspelling depth, letter-cohort book size, and photo-finish peer. Not a difficulty grade.
Rangs de longue queue près de « maladrerie »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- maccarthysme
maccarthysme
14,101 corpus weight
- magmatique
magmatique
14,099 corpus weight
- majo
majo
14,098 corpus weight
- maladrerie
maladrerie
14,097 corpus weight
- malicia
malicia
14,096 corpus weight
- malpolis
malpolis
14,094 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « maladrerie » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | maladrerie |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ma.lad.ʁə.ʁi\ |
| Letters | 10 |
| Frequency rank | #85,904 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « maladrerie » en français
Rare enough to double-check
maladrerie is uncommon French at frequency #85,904 among 5,038 “M” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \ma.lad.ʁə.ʁi\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
Zero misspellings are on record for maladrerie in our index, since its letter sequence doesn't invite the usual edit-distance slips. Our dataset records no confusable match here, which usually means its spelling is distinct enough that readers don't reach for a similar-looking word instead.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct French form is maladrerie, spelled M-A-L-A-D-R-E-R-I-E.
Definition
- 1Léproserie.
- 2Hospice.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how maladrerie appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Chaque matin […] roulait sur ses gonds la porte de la maladrerie, et les lépreux, semblables aux antiques anachorètes, s'enfonçaient tout le jour parmi le désert.
Nous rencontrâmes aussi des maladreries toutes délabrées, pour mettre les pauvres gens en train de mourir.
Definitions, pronunciation, and etymology for this entry are drawn from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org structured extract (CC BY-SA); frequency ordering uses the FrequencyWords open word-frequency list (2018 French corpus, MIT). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.
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