madi
\ma.di\
The verdict
“madi” is uncommon French (frequency #57,402 among 202,672 “M” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #57,402
- frequency rank, French
- 202,672
- “M” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - Nom donné à deux synanthérées (Madia sativa, Molina 1782 et Madia mellosa, Molina 1782) dont les graines fournissent une huile alimentaire de très bonne qualité, et que l’on cultive actuellement en...
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | madi |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ma.di\ |
| Letters | 4 |
| Frequency rank | #57,402 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “madi” sits in French frequency
Rare enough to double-check
madi is uncommon French at frequency #57,402 among 202,672 “M” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \ma.di\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Nom donné à deux synanthérées (Madia sativa, Molina 1782 et Madia mellosa, Molina 1782) dont les graines fournissent une huile alimentaire de très bonne qualité, et que l’on cultive actuellement en...".
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for madi, typically a sign the spelling maps closely to how the word sounds. This entry stands alone in our confusable dataset, which typically means the spelling is too distinctive to be mistaken for another word.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so its spelling is best explained by sound-to-letter mapping rather than etymology. The correct French form is madi, spelled M-A-D-I.
Definition
- 1Nom donné à deux synanthérées (Madia sativa, Molina 1782 et Madia mellosa, Molina 1782) dont les graines fournissent une huile alimentaire de très bonne qualité, et que l’on cultive actuellement en France. L’huile est aussi utilisée en savonnerie pour ses qualités siccatives.
This word in other languages
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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Using “madi”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct French spelling is M-A-D-I - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
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Data Source
Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Word ordering uses an open word-frequency list; misspelling variants are generated by edit-distance from the correct headword.