madonna
/məˈdɒnə/noun
madonna is spelled M-A-D-O-N-N-A: 7 letters and 3 syllables. It appears 5.4 times per million words in written English, the 10,680th most frequent word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). As a noun, madonna means “A representation of the Virgin Mary” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The plural of madonna is madonnas.
How many letters and syllables are in madonna?
| Letters | 7: M-A-D-O-N-N-A |
|---|---|
| Syllables | 3 (from its American pronunciation) |
| In writing | 5.4 times per million words; the 10,680th most frequent word form |
| Wrong spellings searched | none measured in search |
Sources: letters and syllables from the English Wiktionary's hyphenation or pronunciation and the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary; written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).
How common is madonna?
Madonna appears 5.4 times per million words in written English, the 10,680th most frequent word form in the list.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).
How do you pronounce madonna?
- /məˈdɒnə/
Madonna has 3 syllables (counted from its American pronunciation in the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary).
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Recordings: En-us-Madonna.oga, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).
Forms of madonna
- madonnas plural
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
What does madonna mean?
The meanings the English Wiktionary records, quoted as written there (source below).
noun
- 1
A representation of the Virgin Mary.
- 2
A morally pure woman.
- 3
A lady.
- 4
A one-footed lien-to-tail trick, where the front foot is taken off and kicked out straight down behind the board.
noun
- 1
An artistic representation of the Virgin Mary, chiefly when holding the infant Jesus.
A beautiful example of this type of Madonna is the polyptych in the Museo Civico in Sansepolcro.
- 2
A morally pure woman.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).