madras
\ma.dʁɑs\
The verdict
“madras” has 9 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #40,852. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #40,852
- frequency rank, French
- 5,038
- “M” headwords
- 9
- tracked misspellings
- 19
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Étoffe dont la chaîne est de soie et la trame de coton, et qui est ainsi nommée parce qu’elle a été fabriquée d’abord à Madras, ville de l’Inde.
Corpus desk
Index FR-madras · madras · French
madras · rank #40,852 · 9 variants · 19 confusables
- FREQ-MID #40,852
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-HIGH 19 pairs
- VAR-MID 9 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,038
- PHOTO-FINISH Madeline
Nearest frequency peer: Madeline (-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.
Pairs de rang près de l'aimant d'erreurs « madras »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- lyncher
lyncher
59,153 corpus weight
- Lynda
Lynda
59,152 corpus weight
- Madeline
Madeline
59,150 corpus weight
- madras
madras
59,149 corpus weight
- maladresses
maladresses
59,146 corpus weight
- manichéisme
manichéisme
59,145 corpus weight
What this shows « madras » 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 | madras |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ma.dʁɑs\ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #40,852 |
| Misspellings tracked | 9 |
| Confusable pairs | 19 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « madras »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 9 spelling variants around madras (IPA \ma.dʁɑs\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #40,852 among 5,038 “M” headwords. Wiktionary lists 3 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 9 likely wrong-spelling variants for madras, with forms such as "amdras", "madars", and "maddras". Each of these forms differs from the correct spelling by one small edit: a doubled letter, a dropped silent letter, or a substituted vowel. It also participates in 19 confusable-pair relationships, "mars", "mara", "Mads", 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, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct French form is madras, spelled M-A-D-R-A-S.
Definition
- 1Étoffe dont la chaîne est de soie et la trame de coton, et qui est ainsi nommée parce qu’elle a été fabriquée d’abord à Madras, ville de l’Inde.
- 2Coiffe traditionnelle des Antillaises faite d’un mouchoir de cette étoffe.
- 3Coiffe traditionnelle des Bordelaises.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how madras appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Un mouchoir de madras ou, simplement,
Une belle négresse avec un madras traversa l’antichambre, souriant et lui faisant une espèce de petite révérence fort encourageante.
Synonyms
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- amdras
- madars
- maddras
- madrass
- madrras
- madrsa
- mardas
- mdaras
- mmadras
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of madras - expressed in single-character edits (insert, delete, or swap one letter). Bigger bars stand out at a glance; a one-edit slip is the hardest to catch.
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 (9 here; floor ≥5).