madeja
[maˈð̞exa]
The verdict
“madeja” is uncommon Spanish (frequency #74,702 among 36,142 “M” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #74,702
- frequency rank, Spanish
- 36,142
- “M” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - Hilo recogido en vueltas iguales, es decir sin ovillar, sobre un torno o aspadera, para que luego se pueda devanar fácilmente.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | madeja |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [maˈð̞exa] |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #74,702 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “madeja” sits in Spanish frequency
Rare enough to double-check
madeja is uncommon Spanish at frequency #74,702 among 36,142 “M” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed [maˈð̞exa]. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 4 senses are on record.
The misspelling generator found no plausible variants for madeja, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct Spanish form is madeja, spelled M-A-D-E-J-A.
Definition
- 1Hilo recogido en vueltas iguales, es decir sin ovillar, sobre un torno o aspadera, para que luego se pueda devanar fácilmente.
- 2Mata de pelo.
- 3Hombre flojo y dejado.
- 4Persona que acumula especies sin coordinación ni método, o que no tiene orden ni concierto en sus cosas y discursos.
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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 Spanish corpus, MIT). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.
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Using “madeja”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct Spanish spelling is M-A-D-E-J-A - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
- Say it as [maˈð̞exa] (IPA); tap the speaker on the pronunciation badge to hear it where audio exists.
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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.