Madère
\ma.dɛʁ\
The verdict
“Madère” has 9 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #30,257. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #30,257
- frequency rank, French
- 5,038
- “M” headwords
- 9
- tracked misspellings
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Île la plus importante de l’archipel madérien, située à 643 km au nord-ouest du Maroc et appartenant au Portugal.
Corpus desk
Index FR-madere · Madère · French
Madère · rank #30,257 · 9 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-MID #30,257
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-MID 9 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,038
- PHOTO-FINISH Mailly
Nearest frequency peer: Mailly (+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 « Madère »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- lyre
lyre
69,748 corpus weight
- lâchés
lâchés
69,747 corpus weight
- lépreux
lépreux
69,746 corpus weight
- Madère
Madère
69,744 corpus weight
- Mailly
Mailly
69,743 corpus weight
- mainstream
mainstream
69,742 corpus weight
What this shows « Madère » 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 | Madère |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| IPA | \ma.dɛʁ\ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #30,257 |
| Misspellings tracked | 9 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « Madère »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 9 spelling variants around Madère (IPA \ma.dɛʁ\), aproper noun. Corpus frequency is #30,257 among 5,038 “M” headwords. Wiktionary lists 3 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 9 likely wrong-spelling variants for Madère, with forms such as "amdère", "maddère", and "madere". 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 20 confusable-pair relationships, "Mère", "mare", "maire", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, so its spelling is best read as a straightforward mapping from sound to letter. The correct French form is Madère, spelled M-A-D-È-R-E.
Definition
- 1Île la plus importante de l’archipel madérien, située à 643 km au nord-ouest du Maroc et appartenant au Portugal.
- 2Région du Portugal.
- 3Sous-région du Portugal.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how Madère appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Elle regardait, dans le vide, un avenir que le hasard venait de sauver, et Madère dont le nom et le vin sont d’or… – Madère ? répéta Colombe. Pourquoi Madère ? Quelle drôle d’idée…
Quelques endroits de l’île ont bien été aménagés pour installer des chaises longues et permettre aux enfants de barboter dans une eau qui est à 18 °C l’hiver et à 22 °C l’été, mais ceux qui aiment lézarder sur la plage ne trouveront pas leur bonheur à Madère.
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- amdère
- maddère
- madere
- madrèe
- madèer
- madèrre
- maèdre
- mdaère
- mmadère
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of Madère - counted as single-character edits (an insertion, a deletion, or a substituted letter). The larger the bar, the easier the typo is to spot; one-edit slips are the ones that sneak past readers.
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 "Madère", not the corpus desk frequency band.
Same letter count
Frequency-ranked French headwords with 6 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (9 here; floor ≥5).