English homophones
Maddie/Maddy/Madi
"Maddie" (#20,991 written frequency) beats "Maddy" (#30,125) in this 3-word /ˈmædi/ cluster. Size rank #30 of 1,007 English groups.
Data vintage
Frequency splits the cluster
These 3 spellings keep the same /ˈmædi/ reading, but written frequency splits them hard: "Maddie" leads at #20,991, with "Maddy" trailing at #30,125.
Spelling pairs in this cluster
- Shared stem "madd" then splits - "Maddie" (6 letters) vs "Maddy" (5).
- Shared stem "mad" then splits - "Maddie" (6 letters) vs "Madi" (4).
- Shared stem "mad" then splits - "Maddy" (5 letters) vs "Madi" (4).
Orthographic DNA of this cluster
Shared letters across Maddie, Maddy, Madi: adm. Private letters are the ones only one spelling owns: the eye's fastest tell once sound is out of the picture.
Maddie
6 letters · 3 vowels · shape CVCCVV
Inventory adeim · private ei
Maddy
5 letters · 2 vowels · shape CVCCV
Inventory admy · private y
Madi
4 letters · 2 vowels · shape CVCV
Inventory adim · private i
Pick the spelling from the meaning
- Write "Maddie" when you mean: A diminutive of the female given name Madeleine.
- Write "Maddy" when you mean: A diminutive of the female given name Madeleine.
- Write "Madi" when you mean: A diminutive of the female given name Madeleine.
Known mistypes of these spellings
Edit-distance variants recorded against this cluster: useful when a search or OCR feed lands on the wrong form.
Each spelling
Nearby English homophone groups
What to do next
You've reviewed the 3-spelling cluster (Maddie, Maddy, Madi). Here's where to go from here.
- "Maddie" is the most frequent headword in this 3-spelling cluster (rank #20,991 in English). Full entry
- Among English homophone groups, a cluster of 3 spellings ranks #30 by size (1,007 groups in this vintage). Corpus statistics
- Explore a nearby 3-spelling cluster: mac · Mack · mak. Nearby cluster
- Each spelling in "Maddie, Maddy, Madi" has its own headword page with definition, IPA, and misspelling variants. First entry
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