madone
\ma.dɔn\
The verdict
“madone” has 8 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #29,848. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #29,848
- frequency rank, French
- 5,038
- “M” headwords
- 8
- tracked misspellings
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Représentation de la Vierge.
Corpus desk
Index FR-madone · madone · French
madone · rank #29,848 · 8 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-MID #29,848
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-MID 8 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,038
- PHOTO-FINISH Lomé
Nearest frequency peer: Lomé (-2 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.
Pairs de rang près de l'aimant d'erreurs « madone »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- Larcher
Larcher
70,158 corpus weight
- limonade
limonade
70,157 corpus weight
- lionne
lionne
70,156 corpus weight
- Lomé
Lomé
70,155 corpus weight
- madone
madone
70,153 corpus weight
- marchaient
marchaient
70,149 corpus weight
What this shows « madone » siège parmi ces pairs FrequencyWords; la profondeur des fautes est suivie à part dans le graphique d'édition.
Visual similarity to commonly confused words
How many letter changes separate each confused pair (Levenshtein distance, normalized).
Source: PlainSpell confusable corpus (Wiktionary, CC BY-SA).
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | madone |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ma.dɔn\ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #29,848 |
| Misspellings tracked | 8 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « madone »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 8 spelling variants around madone (IPA \ma.dɔn\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #29,848 among 5,038 “M” headwords. Wiktionary lists 3 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 8 likely wrong-spelling variants for madone, with forms such as "amdone", "maddone", and "madnoe". Every one of these variants traces to a single-character edit -- an added or dropped letter, a swapped consonant, or a vowel swap -- the kind of slip a spell-checker is built to catch. It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "mane", "marne", "maine", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
Our source data has no etymology on file for this entry, so any spelling logic here comes from how the word's sounds map to letters, not a documented origin story. The correct French form is madone, spelled M-A-D-O-N-E.
Definition
- 1Représentation de la Vierge.
- 2Très belle femme, pure et innocente. Note d’usage : Madone avec majuscule dans ce sens en poésie
- 3Femme importante.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how madone appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Fabrice, ayant l'air de marcher au hasard, s'avança dans la nef droite de l'église jusqu'au lieu où ses cierges étaient allumés ; ses yeux se fixèrent sur la madone de Cimabué.
…dans un cadre vermoulu, il y avait un tableau […]. C'était une madone tenant dans ses bras l'enfant Jésus. L'auréole d'or entourait le chaste front de Marie ; ses cheveux tombaient sur ses épaules, et une tunique bleue à longues manches laissait voir dans l'attitude une grâce naïve et le tendre maintien d'une jeune mère.
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- amdone
- maddone
- madnoe
- madoen
- madonne
- maodne
- mdaone
- mmadone
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of madone - measured in single-character edits (insert, delete, or substitute a letter). Larger bars are easier to catch; one-edit slips are the sneakiest.
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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Similar French words by spelling shape
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Same letter count
Frequency-ranked French headwords with 6 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (8 here; floor ≥5).