malady

Other forms of malady

plural

maladies·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about malady

What does malady mean?

malady means "any unwholesome or desperate condition". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in malady?

malady has 3 syllables: mal-a-dy. The stress falls on "mal". In IPA it is /ˈmælədi/.

What is another word for malady?

Close synonyms include illness, unwellness, sickness. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is malady a common word?

malady is banded "Uncommon" — turns up in careful writing rather than conversation. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.