tasse de malade
\tas də ma.lad\
The verdict
“tasse de malade” is outside the top-ranked French vocabulary, used as a noun - the kind of word writers most often double-check.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency French
- 15
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - Tasse avec un bec verseur, destinée à faire boire des personnes alitées.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | tasse de malade |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \tas də ma.lad\ |
| Letters | 15 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “tasse de malade” sits in French frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for tasse de malade is 15 letters long, classified as a noun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \tas də ma.lad\. 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: "Tasse avec un bec verseur, destinée à faire boire des personnes alitées.".
No misspelling variants are generated for tasse de malade 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 tasse de malade, spelled T-A-S-S-E- -D-E- -M-A-L-A-D-E, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Tasse avec un bec verseur, destinée à faire boire des personnes alitées.
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- The one correct French spelling is T-A-S-S-E- -D-E- -M-A-L-A-D-E - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
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