Madrid

/\ma.dʁid\/ name

Letters

6 characters

Frequency Rank

#2,935

in French word usage

Misspellings

9

tracked variants

Confusables

15

similar word pairs

Madrid is aFrenchname. It means: Commune et ville capitale de l’Espagne. Pronounced \ma.dʁid\. It ranks #2,935 in French word frequency. Often confused with mari and maid.

Key facts for Madrid
PropertyValue
HeadwordMadrid
LanguageFrench
Part of speechName
IPA\ma.dʁid\
Letters6
Frequency rank#2,935
Misspellings tracked9
Confusable pairs15
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Frequency rank visualization

Position of Madrid in French word frequency (lower rank = more common)

Source: Wordfreq corpus

Spelling & Dictionary Insight

The French entry for Madrid is 6 letters long, classified as aname, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \ma.dʁid\. Corpus data places it at rank #2,935 in overall French word frequency, indicating it appears regularly in written and spoken text.Wiktionary records 4 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.

Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 9 documented wrong-spelling variants for Madrid, with forms such as "amdrid", "maddrid", and "madird". Each variant represents a distinct typo pattern that appears often enough in corpora to be worth flagging, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution.It also participates in 15 confusable-pair relationships, "mari", "maid", "Maria", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.

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. For readers arriving here from a spelling check, the authoritative guidance is: the correct French form is Madrid, spelled M-A-D-R-I-D, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.

Definition

  1. 1
    Commune et ville capitale de l’Espagne.
  2. 2
    Province et communauté autonome d’Espagne.
  3. 3
    Gouvernement espagnol.
  4. 4
    Ville e 150.000 habitants située an centre de la Colombie.

This word in other languages

Common misspellings

Also misspelled as: amdrid,maddrid,madird,madrdi,madridd,madrrid,mardid,mdarid,mmadrid

Misspelling Pattern Breakdown

Relative frequency of common misspelling types for Madrid

Misspelling Variants of "Madrid"

amdrid6maddrid7madird6madrdi6madridd7madrrid7mardid6mdarid6
Misspelling Variants of "Madrid"

Frequency rank: #2,935 in French

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "Madrid"?
"Madrid" is spelled M-A-D-R-I-D. The IPA pronunciation is \ma.dʁid\.
What does "Madrid" mean?
As a name, "Madrid" means: Commune et ville capitale de l’Espagne.
What words are commonly confused with "Madrid"?
"Madrid" is commonly confused with "mari", "maid", "Maria". These words look or sound similar but have different meanings. PlainSpell provides detailed comparisons for each pair.
How do you pronounce "Madrid"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "Madrid" is \ma.dʁid\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "Madrid" come from?
"Madrid" is a French word. PlainSpell covers definitions, pronunciations, and spelling data across English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, and German.
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Nearby French words

Other entries that begin with the letter M in our French index:

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Data Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Frequency data from Wordfreq. Misspellings derived from Hunspell dictionaries.