médecine légale

/\med.sin le.ɡal\/ noun

Letters

15 characters

Language

French

word origin

Misspellings

0

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Confusables

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médecine légale is aFrenchnoun. It means: Branche de la médecine qui intervient lors d’une procédure policière ou judiciaire, désignant plus particulièrement la pratique des autopsies. Pronounced \med.sin le.ɡal\.

Key facts for médecine légale
PropertyValue
Headwordmédecine légale
LanguageFrench
Part of speechNoun
IPA\med.sin le.ɡal\
Letters15
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Frequency rank visualization

médecine légale is not present in the top-100,000 ranked French corpus, typical for technical, archaic, or low-frequency vocabulary.

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list

Spelling & Dictionary Insight

The French entry for médecine légale is 15 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \med.sin le.ɡal\. 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: "Branche de la médecine qui intervient lors d’une procédure policière ou judiciaire, désignant plus particulièrement la pratique des autopsies.".

No misspelling variants are generated for médecine légale 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 médecine légale, spelled M-É-D-E-C-I-N-E- -L-É-G-A-L-E, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.

Definition

  1. 1
    Branche de la médecine qui intervient lors d’une procédure policière ou judiciaire, désignant plus particulièrement la pratique des autopsies.

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Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "médecine légale"?
"médecine légale" is spelled M-É-D-E-C-I-N-E- -L-É-G-A-L-E. The IPA pronunciation is \med.sin le.ɡal\.
What does "médecine légale" mean?
As a noun, "médecine légale" means: Branche de la médecine qui intervient lors d’une procédure policière ou judiciaire, désignant plus particulièrement la pratique des autopsies.
How do you pronounce "médecine légale"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "médecine légale" is \med.sin le.ɡal\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "médecine légale" come from?
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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.