Madeline
\mad.lin\
The verdict
“Madeline” has 11 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #40,851. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #40,851
- frequency rank, French
- 5,038
- “M” headwords
- 11
- tracked misspellings
- 6
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Prénom féminin.
Corpus desk
Index FR-madeline · Madeline · French
Madeline · rank #40,851 · 11 variants · 6 confusables
- FREQ-MID #40,851
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 6 pairs
- VAR-MID 11 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,038
- PHOTO-FINISH madras
Nearest frequency peer: madras (+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.
Pairs de rang près de l'aimant d'erreurs « Madeline »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- lymphome
lymphome
59,154 corpus weight
- lyncher
lyncher
59,153 corpus weight
- Lynda
Lynda
59,152 corpus weight
- Madeline
Madeline
59,150 corpus weight
- madras
madras
59,149 corpus weight
- maladresses
maladresses
59,146 corpus weight
What this shows « Madeline » siège parmi ces pairs FrequencyWords; la profondeur des fautes est suivie à part dans le graphique d'édition.
Visual similarity to commonly confused words
How many letter changes separate each confused pair (Levenshtein distance, normalized).
Source: PlainSpell confusable corpus (Wiktionary, CC BY-SA).
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Madeline |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| IPA | \mad.lin\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #40,851 |
| Misspellings tracked | 11 |
| Confusable pairs | 6 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « Madeline »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 11 spelling variants around Madeline (IPA \mad.lin\), aproper noun. Corpus frequency is #40,851 among 5,038 “M” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Prénom féminin.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 11 likely wrong-spelling variants for Madeline, with forms such as "amdeline", "maddeline", and "madeilne". Each variant is a distinct typo pattern an edit-distance generator flags, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution. It also participates in 6 confusable-pair relationships, "maline", "médecine", "mandoline", and more, since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, so its spelling is best read as a straightforward mapping from sound to letter. The correct French form is Madeline, spelled M-A-D-E-L-I-N-E.
Definition
- 1Prénom féminin.
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- amdeline
- maddeline
- madeilne
- madelien
- madelinne
- madelline
- madelnie
- madleine
- maedline
- mdaeline
- mmadeline
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of Madeline - measured in single-character edits (insert, delete, or substitute a letter). Larger bars are easier to catch; one-edit slips are the sneakiest.
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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Similar French words by spelling shape
Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "Madeline", not the corpus desk frequency band.
Same letter count
Frequency-ranked French headwords with 8 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (11 here; floor ≥5).