Madrid
\ma.dʁid\
The verdict
“Madrid” has 9 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #2,935. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #2,935
- frequency rank, French
- 5,038
- “M” headwords
- 9
- tracked misspellings
- 15
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Commune et ville capitale de l’Espagne.
Corpus desk
Index FR-madrid · Madrid · French
Madrid · rank #2,935 · 9 variants · 15 confusables
- FREQ-COMMON #2,935
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 15 pairs
- VAR-MID 9 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,038
- PHOTO-FINISH lèvres
Nearest frequency peer: lèvres (-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 « Madrid »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- ira
ira
97,069 corpus weight
- libres
libres
97,068 corpus weight
- lèvres
lèvres
97,067 corpus weight
- Madrid
Madrid
97,066 corpus weight
- mail
mail
97,065 corpus weight
- montrent
montrent
97,064 corpus weight
What this shows « Madrid » 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 | Madrid |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| IPA | \ma.dʁid\ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #2,935 |
| Misspellings tracked | 9 |
| Confusable pairs | 15 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « Madrid »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 9 spelling variants around Madrid (IPA \ma.dʁid\), aproper noun. Corpus frequency is #2,935 among 5,038 “M” headwords. Wiktionary lists 4 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 9 likely wrong-spelling variants for Madrid, with forms such as "amdrid", "maddrid", and "madird". 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 15 confusable-pair relationships, "mari", "maid", "Maria", and more, a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.
No borrowing history is documented for this entry, so its spelling is easiest explained by how it's pronounced rather than where it came from. The correct French form is Madrid, spelled M-A-D-R-I-D.
Definition
- 1Commune et ville capitale de l’Espagne.
- 2Province et communauté autonome d’Espagne.
- 3Gouvernement espagnol.
- 4Ville e 150.000 habitants située an centre de la Colombie.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how Madrid appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Lorsque Góngora quitta Madrid pour retourner finir ses jours à Cordoue, Quevedo vint occuper sa maison et, y posant le pied, déclara qu’il fallait « dégongoriser » les lieux !
Promenade dans le Madrid des Habsbourg.
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- amdrid
- maddrid
- madird
- madrdi
- madridd
- madrrid
- mardid
- mdarid
- mmadrid
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of Madrid - 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
Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "Madrid", not the corpus desk frequency band.
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).