madeira
The verdict
“madeira” is uncommon French (frequency #79,501 among 5,038 “M” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #79,501
- frequency rank, French
- 5,038
- “M” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Madère.
Corpus desk
Index FR-madeira · madeira · French
madeira · rank #79,501 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #79,501
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,038
- PHOTO-FINISH légitimant
Nearest frequency peer: légitimant (-2 rank slots)
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.
Rangs de longue queue près de « madeira »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- lysa
lysa
20,504 corpus weight
- lysine
lysine
20,503 corpus weight
- légitimant
légitimant
20,502 corpus weight
- madeira
madeira
20,500 corpus weight
- maelström
maelström
20,498 corpus weight
- maestri
maestri
20,497 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « madeira » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | madeira |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #79,501 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « madeira » en français
Rare enough to double-check
madeira is uncommon French at frequency #79,501 among 5,038 “M” headwords, classed as anoun. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Madère.".
madeira doesn't appear in our generated misspelling index, typically a sign the spelling maps closely to how the word sounds. We don't track a confusable pairing for this entry, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
No documented word history exists for this headword, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct French form is madeira, spelled M-A-D-E-I-R-A.
Definition
- 1Madère.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how madeira appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Have some madeira, m'dear.
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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Similar French words by spelling shape
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Same letter count
Frequency-ranked French headwords with 7 letters (nearest by frequency rank).