madeleine de Proust
The verdict
“madeleine de Proust” 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
- 19
- letters
Dominant Wiktionary sense: Phénomène qui déclenche une impression de réminiscence.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | madeleine de Proust |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \mad.lɛn də pʁust\ |
| Letters | 19 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “madeleine de Proust” sits in French frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for madeleine de Proust is 19 letters long, classified as a noun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \mad.lɛn də pʁust\. 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: "Phénomène qui déclenche une impression de réminiscence.".
No misspelling variants are generated for madeleine de Proust 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 Proust, spelled M-A-D-E-L-E-I-N-E- -D-E- -P-R-O-U-S-T, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Phénomène qui déclenche une impression de réminiscence.
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- The one correct French spelling is M-A-D-E-L-E-I-N-E- -D-E- -P-R-O-U-S-T - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
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