# Madera

> English word · Proper noun · frequency rank #44,916

## Definitions
1. A city, the county seat of Madera County, California, United States.
2. An unincorporated community in Clearfield County, Pennsylvania, United States.
3. A town and municipality (Madera Municipality) in the state of Chihuahua, Mexico.
4. A village in Kuyavian-Pomeranian Voivodeship, Poland.
5. A settlement in Łódź Voivodeship, Poland.
6. A settlement in Pomeranian Voivodeship, Poland.

## Etymology
From Spanish madera (“wood”).

## Easily confused with
- **mara** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/madera-vs-mara)
- **maker** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/madera-vs-maker)
- **Mayer** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/madera-vs-mayer)
- **mater** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/madera-vs-mater)
- **Maher** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/madera-vs-maher)
- **Maura** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/madera-vs-maura)
- **Medea** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/madera-vs-medea)
- **modern** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/madera-vs-modern)
- **mantra** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/madera-vs-mantra)
- **Madras** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/madera-vs-madras)
- **maduro** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/madera-vs-maduro)
- **Modena** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/madera-vs-modena)
- **Mandela** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/madera-vs-mandela)
- **materia** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/madera-vs-materia)
- **Madurai** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/madera-vs-madurai)
- **made** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/made-vs-madera)
- **madder** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/madder-vs-madera)
- **Madeira** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/madeira-vs-madera)

## Common misspellings (8)
`amdera`, `maddera`, `madear`, `maderra`, `madrea`, `maedra`, `mdaera`, `mmadera`

## Source
Compiled from Wiktionary via kaikki.org (CC BY-SA). Data vintage: 2026-05-06.
Canonical page: https://plainspell.com/en/word/madera