madeleine de Jacques

/\mad.lɛn.də.jak\/ noun

The verdict

“madeleine de Jacques” is outside the top-ranked French vocabulary, used as a noun — the kind of word writers most often double-check.

Unranked
below top-frequency French
20
letters

Dominant Wiktionary sense: Synonyme de jaoumet (raisin de table).

Key facts for madeleine de Jacques
PropertyValue
Headwordmadeleine de Jacques
LanguageFrench
Part of speechNoun
IPA\mad.lɛn.də.jak\
Letters20
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Where “madeleine de Jacques” sits in French frequency

madeleine de Jacques falls outside the top-100,000 ranked French words — the long-tail zone of technical, archaic, or low-frequency vocabulary, exactly where readers second-guess spellings most.

Beyond rank #100,000. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

Spelling & Dictionary Insight

The French entry for madeleine de Jacques is 20 letters long, classified as a noun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \mad.lɛn.də.jak\. It sits outside the most-frequent rank tiers, which is often why uncommon words generate more spelling variants per reader. The dominant gloss from Wiktionary reads: "Synonyme de jaoumet (raisin de table).".

No misspelling variants are generated for madeleine de Jacques in our index, suggesting the orthography follows predictable French patterns. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.

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 de Jacques, spelled M-A-D-E-L-E-I-N-E- -D-E- -J-A-C-Q-U-E-S, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.

Definition

  1. 1
    Synonyme de jaoumet (raisin de table).

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "madeleine de Jacques"?
"madeleine de Jacques" is spelled M-A-D-E-L-E-I-N-E- -D-E- -J-A-C-Q-U-E-S. The IPA pronunciation is \mad.lɛn.də.jak\.
What does "madeleine de Jacques" mean?
As a noun, "madeleine de Jacques" means: Synonyme de jaoumet (raisin de table).
How do you pronounce "madeleine de Jacques"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "madeleine de Jacques" is \mad.lɛn.də.jak\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "madeleine de Jacques" come from?
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Using “madeleine de Jacques”

The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.

  • The one correct French spelling is M-A-D-E-L-E-I-N-E- -D-E- -J-A-C-Q-U-E-S — every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
  • Say it as \mad.lɛn.də.jak\ (IPA); tap the speaker on the pronunciation badge to hear it where audio exists.
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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.