madécasse
\ma.de.kas\
The verdict
“madécasse” is uncommon French (outside the top frequency list), classed as an adjective. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency French
- 9
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Malgache, relatif à la population de Madagascar, aux Malgaches.
Corpus desk
Index FR-madecasse · madécasse · French
madécasse · unranked · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-UNRANKED Unranked
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-THIN "M" thin
- PHOTO-UNK Peer pending
Desk codes from Wiktionary headword shape, FrequencyWords rank tier, confusable-pair count, generated misspelling depth, letter-cohort book size, and photo-finish peer. Not a difficulty grade.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | madécasse |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | \ma.de.kas\ |
| Letters | 9 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « madécasse » en français
Rare enough to double-check
madécasse is uncommon French outside the top frequency list, classed as anadjective, transcribed \ma.de.kas\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 3 senses are on record.
madécasse has no tracked misspelling variants, since its letter sequence doesn't invite the usual edit-distance slips. This headword has no recorded confusable partner, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
This entry carries no recorded etymology, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. The correct French form is madécasse, spelled M-A-D-É-C-A-S-S-E.
Definition
- 1Malgache, relatif à la population de Madagascar, aux Malgaches.
- 2Malgache, relatif à la langue malgache.
- 3Relatif aux Français de Madagascar, aux Madécasses.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how madécasse appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
La population madécasse paraît être d’origine arabe.
Parny a traduit ou imité des chansons madécasses.
Definitions, pronunciation, and etymology for this entry are drawn from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org structured extract (CC BY-SA). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.