madre
\madʁ\
The verdict
“madre” has 6 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #33,769. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #33,769
- frequency rank, French
- 5,038
- “M” headwords
- 6
- tracked misspellings
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Bois veiné, ou tacheté issus du cœur ou de la racine et généralement utilisé pour confectionner des récipients pour boire
Corpus desk
Index FR-madre · madre · French
madre · rank #33,769 · 6 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-MID #33,769
- LEN-MID 5 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-MID 6 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,038
- PHOTO-FINISH Machiavel
Nearest frequency peer: Machiavel (-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 « madre »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- lyrisme
lyrisme
66,235 corpus weight
- légionnaire
légionnaire
66,234 corpus weight
- Machiavel
Machiavel
66,233 corpus weight
- madre
madre
66,232 corpus weight
- maintenait
maintenait
66,231 corpus weight
- majorités
majorités
66,230 corpus weight
What this shows « madre » 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 | madre |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \madʁ\ |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #33,769 |
| Misspellings tracked | 6 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « madre »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 6 spelling variants around madre (IPA \madʁ\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #33,769 among 5,038 “M” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Bois veiné, ou tacheté issus du cœur ou de la racine et généralement utilisé pour confectionner des récipients pour boire".
Our generated misspelling index lists 6 likely wrong-spelling variants for madre, with forms such as "amdre", "maddre", and "mader". 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, "mar", "mdr", "Mère", and more, since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. The correct French form is madre, spelled M-A-D-R-E.
Definition
- 1Bois veiné, ou tacheté issus du cœur ou de la racine et généralement utilisé pour confectionner des récipients pour boire
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how madre appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Le tonnel ont tantout percié Devant et detrés et en coste, Et de s'escherpe chascun oste Son hennap de que que il fust, D'argent ou de madre ou de fust, Ou soit de voirre ou soit de terre.
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- amdre
- maddre
- mader
- madrre
- mdare
- mmadre
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of madre - 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 5 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (6 here; floor ≥5).