Madère
Letters
6 characters
Frequency Rank
#30,257
in French word usage
Misspellings
9
tracked variants
Confusables
20
similar word pairs
Madère is aFrenchname. It means: Île la plus importante de l’archipel madérien, située à 643 km au nord-ouest du Maroc et appartenant au Portugal. Pronounced \ma.dɛʁ\. Often confused with Mère and mare.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Madère |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Name |
| IPA | \ma.dɛʁ\ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #30,257 |
| Misspellings tracked | 9 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for Madère is 6 letters long, classified as aname, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \ma.dɛʁ\. Corpus data places it at rank #30,257 in overall French word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it.Wiktionary records 3 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
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.
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 Madère, spelled M-A-D-È-R-E, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
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.
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Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: amdère,maddère,madere,madrèe,madèer,madèrre,maèdre,mdaère,mmadère
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
Relative frequency of common misspelling types for Madère
Misspelling Variants of "Madère"
Frequency rank: #30,257 in French
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