Madelaine
\mad.lɛːn\
The verdict
“Madelaine” is uncommon French (frequency #61,670 among 5,038 “M” headwords), classed as a proper noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #61,670
- frequency rank, French
- 5,038
- “M” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Prénom féminin.
Corpus desk
Index FR-madelaine · Madelaine · French
Madelaine · rank #61,670 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #61,670
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-5 5 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,038
- PHOTO-FINISH mabrouk
Nearest frequency peer: mabrouk (-1 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 « Madelaine »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- luxes
luxes
38,334 corpus weight
- lèchent
lèchent
38,333 corpus weight
- mabrouk
mabrouk
38,332 corpus weight
- Madelaine
Madelaine
38,331 corpus weight
- mafieuses
mafieuses
38,330 corpus weight
- magazin
magazin
38,329 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « Madelaine » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Madelaine |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| IPA | \mad.lɛːn\ |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #61,670 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « Madelaine » en français
Rare enough to double-check
Madelaine is uncommon French at frequency #61,670 among 5,038 “M” headwords, classed as aproper noun, transcribed \mad.lɛːn\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Prénom féminin.".
No misspelling variants are generated for Madelaine in our index, suggesting the orthography follows predictable French patterns. This entry stands alone in our confusable dataset, which typically means the spelling is too distinctive to be mistaken for another word.
No documented word history exists for this headword, so its spelling is easiest explained by how it's pronounced rather than where it came from. The correct French form is Madelaine, spelled M-A-D-E-L-A-I-N-E.
Definition
- 1Prénom féminin.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how Madelaine appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Madelaine Smith n’était en rien sur la défensive et se contentait d’énoncer un fait.
Ambre l’a appelée Madelaine.
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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