madeleine
Letters
9 characters
Frequency Rank
#6,525
in French word usage
Misspellings
12
tracked variants
Confusables
3
similar word pairs
madeleine is aFrenchnoun. It means: Sorte de petit gâteau, qui était particulièrement fabriqué à Commercy. Pronounced \mad.lɛn\. It ranks #6,525 in French word frequency. Often confused with Madelin and Madeline.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | madeleine |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \mad.lɛn\ |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #6,525 |
| Misspellings tracked | 12 |
| Confusable pairs | 3 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for madeleine is 9 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \mad.lɛn\. Corpus data places it at rank #6,525 in overall French word frequency, indicating it appears regularly in written and spoken text.Wiktionary records 6 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 12 documented wrong-spelling variants for madeleine, with forms such as "amdeleine", "maddeleine", and "madeeline". Each variant represents a distinct typo pattern that appears often enough in corpora to be worth flagging, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution.It also participates in 3 confusable-pair relationships, "Madelin", "Madeline", "madeleines", where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. For readers arriving here from a spelling check, the authoritative guidance is: the correct French form is madeleine, spelled M-A-D-E-L-E-I-N-E, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Sorte de petit gâteau, qui était particulièrement fabriqué à Commercy.
- 2Expérience de mémoire involontaire, en référence à plusieurs passages de l’œuvre de Marcel Proust, À la recherche du temps perdu, où le goût d’une madeleine replonge le narrateur dans un souvenir d’enfance.
- 3Hospice fondé et géré par des chrétiens dès les premières époques de la diffusion du judéo-christianisme oriental.
- 4Nom donné à différentes espèces de fruits (pomme, poire, raisin,...) dont la maturation est précoce et que l'on peut récolter à la Sainte Madeleine le 22 juillet.
- 5Synonyme de plusieurs espèces de cépages dont les noms officiels sont madeleine angevine oberlin (raisin de table blanc) à ne pas confondre avec la madeleine angevine (qui donne du vin blanc), jaoumet (qui donne du vin blanc), et quelques autres. Il existe aussi des «madeleine» de Céline, de Clermont, royale, noire, etc. Qui sont autant de cépages différents.
- 6Fer à plisser le linge.
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Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: amdeleine,maddeleine,madeeline,madeleien,madeleinne,madelenie,madeliene,madelleine,madleeine,maedleine,mdaeleine,mmadeleine
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
Relative frequency of common misspelling types for madeleine
Misspelling Variants of "madeleine"
Frequency rank: #6,525 in French
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