madina
\ma.di.na\
The verdict
“madina” is uncommon French (frequency #92,960 among 202,672 “M” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #92,960
- frequency rank, French
- 202,672
- “M” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - Cépage donnant un raisin de table dont les gros grains vert-jaune sont apyrènes. C'est un croisement réalisé par Paul Truel en 1964 à l'INRA de Montpellier entre les cépages cardinal et sultanine.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | madina |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ma.di.na\ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #92,960 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “madina” sits in French frequency
Rare enough to double-check
madina is uncommon French at frequency #92,960 among 202,672 “M” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \ma.di.na\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Cépage donnant un raisin de table dont les gros grains vert-jaune sont apyrènes. C'est un croisement réalisé par Paul Truel en 1964 à l'INRA de Montpellier entre les cépages cardinal et sultanine.".
madina doesn't appear in our generated misspelling index, since its letter pattern doesn't lend itself to common typo substitutions. This headword has no recorded confusable partner, since its spelling is unusual enough that it doesn't cluster with a lookalike.
No documented word history exists for this headword, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct French form is madina, spelled M-A-D-I-N-A.
Definition
- 1Cépage donnant un raisin de table dont les gros grains vert-jaune sont apyrènes. C'est un croisement réalisé par Paul Truel en 1964 à l'INRA de Montpellier entre les cépages cardinal et sultanine.
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 “madina”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct French spelling is M-A-D-I-N-A - 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.