madina
\ma.di.na\
The verdict
“madina” is uncommon French (frequency #92,960 among 5,038 “M” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #92,960
- frequency rank, French
- 5,038
- “M” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 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.
Corpus desk
Index FR-madina · madina · French
madina · rank #92,960 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #92,960
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,038
- PHOTO-FINISH madrague
Nearest frequency peer: madrague (+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.
Rangs de longue queue près de « madina »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- macadamia
macadamia
7,045 corpus weight
- macareux
macareux
7,044 corpus weight
- madina
madina
7,041 corpus weight
- madrague
madrague
7,040 corpus weight
- Magnac
Magnac
7,038 corpus weight
- mahométane
mahométane
7,037 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « madina » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| 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) |
Longue queue: rang de « madina » en français
Rare enough to double-check
madina is uncommon French at frequency #92,960 among 5,038 “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.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how madina appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Les chercheurs ont donc croisé cette variété avec une autre, le dattier de Beyrouth, pour obtenir le danuta, un raisin blanc sans pépin. L'INRA a créé deux autres variétés : l'exalta et le madina. En réalité, les pépins existent, mais ils restent à l'état embryonnaire à l'intérieur du fruit.
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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