médecin des morts
\mɛd.sɛ̃ dɛ mɔʁ\
The verdict
“médecin des morts” is uncommon French (outside the top frequency list), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency French
- 17
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Ancien nom donné aux médecins légistes à Paris.
Corpus desk
Index FR-medecin-des-morts · médecin des morts · French
médecin des morts · unranked · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-UNRANKED Unranked
- LEN-MEGA 17 letters
- VOW-5 5 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-THIN "M" thin
- PHOTO-UNK Peer pending
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.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | médecin des morts |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \mɛd.sɛ̃ dɛ mɔʁ\ |
| Letters | 17 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « médecin des morts » en français
Rare enough to double-check
médecin des morts is uncommon French outside the top frequency list, classed as anoun, transcribed \mɛd.sɛ̃ dɛ mɔʁ\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Ancien nom donné aux médecins légistes à Paris.".
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for médecin des morts, typically a sign the spelling maps closely to how the word sounds. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, since its spelling is unusual enough that it doesn't cluster with a lookalike.
No documented word history exists for this headword, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct French form is médecin des morts, spelled M-É-D-E-C-I-N- -D-E-S- -M-O-R-T-S.
Definition
- 1Ancien nom donné aux médecins légistes à Paris.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how médecin des morts appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
On nomme à Paris médecin des morts le docteur chargé, dans chaque mairie, d’aller vérifier le décès et d’en examiner les causes.
La question est nouvelle, croyons-nous, en ce qui concerne le médecin des indigents, mais, en ce qui concerne le médecin des morts, il a été jugé qu’il devait être considéré comme un citoyen chargé d’un mandat public : Cour d’assises de la Seine 24 août 1883 (La loi 1883, nᵒ 200).
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.