Mademoiselle
Letters
12 characters
Frequency Rank
#5,887
in French word usage
Misspellings
15
tracked variants
Confusables
2
similar word pairs
Mademoiselle is aFrenchpron. It means: Titre que l’on donne familièrement à une femme afin de souligner son jeune âge ou son statut de femme célibataire. Note d’usage : En France, son utilisation est interdite dans les documents ayant u... Pronounced \mad.mwa.zɛl\. It ranks #5,887 in French word frequency. Often confused with Mlle and Melle.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Mademoiselle |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Pron |
| IPA | \mad.mwa.zɛl\ |
| Letters | 12 |
| Frequency rank | #5,887 |
| Misspellings tracked | 15 |
| Confusable pairs | 2 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for Mademoiselle is 12 letters long, classified as apron, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \mad.mwa.zɛl\. Corpus data places it at rank #5,887 in overall French word frequency, indicating it appears regularly in written and spoken text.Wiktionary records 3 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 15 documented wrong-spelling variants for Mademoiselle, with forms such as "amdemoiselle", "maddemoiselle", and "mademioselle". 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 2 confusable-pair relationships, "Mlle", "Melle", 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 Mademoiselle, spelled M-A-D-E-M-O-I-S-E-L-L-E, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Titre que l’on donne familièrement à une femme afin de souligner son jeune âge ou son statut de femme célibataire. Note d’usage : En France, son utilisation est interdite dans les documents ayant une valeur officielle. Au Québec, il n’est employé que pour qualifier de très jeunes filles.
- 2Titre que l’on donnait autrefois à toute femme noble non titrée mariée ou non.
- 3Fille aînée de Monsieur, frère du roi, ou la première princesse du sang, tant qu’elle n’était pas mariée.
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Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: amdemoiselle,maddemoiselle,mademioselle,mademmoiselle,mademoieslle,mademoisele,mademoiselel,mademoislele,mademoisselle,mademosielle,madeomiselle,madmeoiselle,maedmoiselle,mdaemoiselle,mmademoiselle
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
Relative frequency of common misspelling types for Mademoiselle
Misspelling Variants of "Mademoiselle"
Frequency rank: #5,887 in French
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