madness
\ˈmæd.nɪs\
The verdict
“madness” is uncommon French (frequency #52,181 among 5,038 “M” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #52,181
- frequency rank, French
- 5,038
- “M” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Folie, insanité.
Corpus desk
Index FR-madness · madness · French
madness · rank #52,181 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #52,181
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,038
- PHOTO-FINISH Magdebourg
Nearest frequency peer: Magdebourg (+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 « madness »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- Maalouf
Maalouf
47,823 corpus weight
- mace
mace
47,822 corpus weight
- madness
madness
47,820 corpus weight
- Magdebourg
Magdebourg
47,819 corpus weight
- magi
magi
47,818 corpus weight
- maintenons
maintenons
47,817 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « madness » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | madness |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ˈmæd.nɪs\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #52,181 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « madness » en français
Rare enough to double-check
madness is uncommon French at frequency #52,181 among 5,038 “M” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \ˈmæd.nɪs\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Folie, insanité.".
madness has no tracked misspelling variants, since its letter sequence doesn't invite the usual edit-distance slips. Our confusable-pair dataset has no match for it, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
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 madness, spelled M-A-D-N-E-S-S.
Definition
- 1Folie, insanité.
Antonyms
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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