madiran
\ma.di.ʁɑ̃\
The verdict
“madiran” is uncommon French (frequency #78,605 among 5,038 “M” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #78,605
- frequency rank, French
- 5,038
- “M” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Vin d’appellation AOP produit dans le nord-est des Pyrénées-Atlantiques.
Corpus desk
Index FR-madiran · madiran · French
madiran · rank #78,605 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #78,605
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,038
- PHOTO-FINISH macina
Nearest frequency peer: macina (-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 « madiran »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- lymphe
lymphe
21,399 corpus weight
- macina
macina
21,397 corpus weight
- madiran
madiran
21,396 corpus weight
- madriers
madriers
21,395 corpus weight
- magies
magies
21,394 corpus weight
- magneto
magneto
21,393 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « madiran » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | madiran |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ma.di.ʁɑ̃\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #78,605 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « madiran » en français
Rare enough to double-check
madiran is uncommon French at frequency #78,605 among 5,038 “M” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \ma.di.ʁɑ̃\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Vin d’appellation AOP produit dans le nord-est des Pyrénées-Atlantiques.".
No generated misspelling entries exist for madiran in our index, typically a sign the spelling maps closely to how the word sounds. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, since no other headword is close enough in sound or shape to pair with it.
No borrowing history is documented for this entry, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct French form is madiran, spelled M-A-D-I-R-A-N.
Definition
- 1Vin d’appellation AOP produit dans le nord-est des Pyrénées-Atlantiques.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how madiran appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Il faut savoir « escalader » un barolo ou un bandol, car c’est parfois rude et astringent, il faut pouvoir « pénétrer » un cahors ou un madiran, car c’est noir et bourru, il faut enfin supporter ces bourgognes maigres, étriqués et décharnés des années 1970 sans perdre son dentier.
Tous les vins, fruits de la vigne et du travail des hommes – irouléguy, rioja, buzet, madiran – sont dans Hautacam, prêts à réchauffer nos balèzes gosiers.
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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