MADD
/mæd/
"madd" is a 4-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“MADD” is uncommon English (frequency #68,407 among 36,575 “M” headwords), classed as a proper noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #68,407
- frequency rank, English
- 36,575
- “M” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - Acronym of Mothers Against Drunk Driving.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | MADD |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| IPA | /mæd/ |
| Letters | 4 |
| Frequency rank | #68,407 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “MADD” sits in English frequency
Rare enough to double-check
MADD is uncommon English at frequency #68,407 among 36,575 “M” headwords, classed as aproper noun, transcribed /mæd/. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Acronym of Mothers Against Drunk Driving.".
The misspelling generator found no plausible variants for MADD, typically a sign the spelling maps closely to how the word sounds. Our dataset records no confusable match here, since no other headword is close enough in sound or shape to pair with it.
No documented word history exists for this headword, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct English form is MADD, spelled M-A-D-D.
Definition
- 1Acronym of Mothers Against Drunk Driving.
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 English corpus, MIT). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.
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- The one correct English spelling is M-A-D-D - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
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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.