madre
[ˈmaːdre]
The verdict
“madre” is uncommon German (frequency #59,862 among 3,571 “M” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #59,862
- frequency rank, German
- 3,571
- “M” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - die Mutter
Corpus desk
Index DE-madre · madre · German
madre · rank #59,862 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #59,862
- LEN-MID 5 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,571
- PHOTO-FINISH Mafiosi
Nearest frequency peer: Mafiosi (+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.
Frequency neighbourhood for “madre”
Lower corpus rank = more everyday usage (inverted bar length for readability)
- machbare
machbare
40,142 corpus weight
- Machwerk
Machwerk
40,141 corpus weight
- madre
madre
40,139 corpus weight
- Mafiosi
Mafiosi
40,138 corpus weight
- Mahagoni
Mahagoni
40,137 corpus weight
- marchand
marchand
40,136 corpus weight
What this shows Bars show where “madre” sits against the nearest ranked German headwords in the FrequencyWords band, not a reprint of letter-browse containment.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | madre |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [ˈmaːdre] |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #59,862 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Wo “madre” in der deutschen Häufigkeit sitzt
Rare enough to double-check
madre is uncommon German at frequency #59,862 among 3,571 “M” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed [ˈmaːdre]. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
No misspelling variants are generated for madre in our index, a straightforward case of a spelling with little room for common typos. Our confusable-pair dataset has no match for it, which typically means the spelling is too distinctive to be mistaken for another word.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so its spelling is best read as a straightforward mapping from sound to letter. The correct German form is madre, spelled M-A-D-R-E.
Definition
- 1die Mutter
- 2die Schwester
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 German corpus, MIT). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.
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Frequency-ranked German headwords with 5 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
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