madeleines
French, noun\mad.lɛn\
madeleines is spelled M-A-D-E-L-E-I-N-E-S (10 letters) and appears about once in every 2 million words in written French, the 49,558th most frequent French word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Madeleines is a French feminine noun meaning “plural of madeleine” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Fer à plisser le linge”.
What does madeleines mean in English?
noun
- 1
feminineplural of madeleine
Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How French dictionaries define it
noun: 1. Fer à plisser le linge.
The definition in the French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire), in French.
Source: French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire), dump of September 1, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org.
Forms of madeleines
- madeleine singular
Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce madeleines?
- \mad.lɛn\
Sources: English Wiktionary, French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
How common is madeleines in French?
madeleines appears about once in every 2 million words in written French.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).