Madagascar
\ma.da.ɡas.kaʁ\
The verdict
“Madagascar” has 15 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #6,315. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #6,315
- frequency rank, French
- 202,672
- “M” headwords
- 15
- tracked misspellings
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - Grande île de l’océan Indien située à 400 km à l’est du Mozambique, remarquable pour la variété unique de sa faune.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Madagascar |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| IPA | \ma.da.ɡas.kaʁ\ |
| Letters | 10 |
| Frequency rank | #6,315 |
| Misspellings tracked | 15 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “Madagascar” sits in French frequency
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 15 spelling variants around Madagascar (IPA \ma.da.ɡas.kaʁ\), aproper noun. Corpus frequency is #6,315 among 202,672 “M” headwords. Wiktionary lists 2 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 15 likely wrong-spelling variants for Madagascar, with forms such as "amdagascar", "maadgascar", and "madaagscar". Every one of these variants traces to a single-character edit -- an added or dropped letter, a swapped consonant, or a vowel swap -- the kind of slip a spell-checker is built to catch. 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 borrowing history is documented for this entry, so its spelling is best read as a straightforward mapping from sound to letter. The correct French form is Madagascar, spelled M-A-D-A-G-A-S-C-A-R.
Definition
- 1Grande île de l’océan Indien située à 400 km à l’est du Mozambique, remarquable pour la variété unique de sa faune.
- 2État insulaire occupant cette île, ayant pour capitale Antananarivo.
Synonyms
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- amdagascar
- maadgascar
- madaagscar
- madagacsar
- madagasacr
- madagascarr
- madagasccar
- madagascra
- madagasscar
- madaggascar
- madagsacar
- maddagascar
- madgaascar
- mdaagascar
- mmadagascar
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of Madagascar - expressed in single-character edits (insert, delete, or swap one letter). Bigger bars stand out at a glance; a one-edit slip is the hardest to catch.
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 French corpus, MIT). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.
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Using “Madagascar”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct French spelling is M-A-D-A-G-A-S-C-A-R - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
- Say it as \ma.da.ɡas.kaʁ\ (IPA); tap the speaker on the pronunciation badge to hear it where audio exists.
- Browse more French words and confusable pairs in the same reference. French words
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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.