madriers

\ma.dʁi.je\

/\ma.dʁi.je\/ noun

The verdict

“madriers” is uncommon French (frequency #78,606 among 5,038 “M” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.

#78,606
frequency rank, French
5,038
“M” headwords

According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Pluriel de madrier.

Corpus desk

Index FR-madriers · madriers · French

madriers · rank #78,606 · 0 variants · 0 confusables

  • FREQ-RARE #78,606
  • LEN-LONG 8 letters
  • VOW-3 3 vowels
  • CONFUS-0 No pairs
  • VAR-0 0 variants
  • BOOK-DENSE 5,038
  • PHOTO-FINISH madiran

Nearest frequency peer: madiran (-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.

Rangs de longue queue près de « madriers »

Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court

corpus weight

What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « madriers » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.

Source FrequencyWords open word-frequency list As of September 3, 2026
Key facts for madriers
PropertyValue
Headwordmadriers
LanguageFrench
Part of speechNoun
IPA\ma.dʁi.je\
Letters8
Frequency rank#78,606
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Longue queue: rang de « madriers » en français

Cette échelle va du noyau du français courant (gauche) jusqu'à la traîne des formes rares (droite).madrierstombe dans cette queue de rareté:

#1#100#1K#10K#100K
← used constantlyrarely used →

Les tics avancent en logarithme; chacun est de l'ordre de dix fois plus rare. Voisins rares de la même bande: « madiran » (#78,605), « magies » (#78,607), « macina » (#78,604). Parmi 5,038 lemmes en « M », « madriers » est au #78,606. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

Rare enough to double-check

madriers is uncommon French at frequency #78,606 among 5,038 “M” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \ma.dʁi.je\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Pluriel de madrier.".

Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for madriers, suggesting the orthography follows predictable French patterns. This headword has no recorded confusable partner, suggesting its spelling stands apart enough that readers rarely confuse it with something else.

No borrowing history is documented for this entry, so its spelling is best read as a straightforward mapping from sound to letter. The correct French form is madriers, spelled M-A-D-R-I-E-R-S.

Definition

  1. 1
    Pluriel de madrier.

Recorded use

Wiktionary examples

These source excerpts show how madriers appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.

  1. Sur les sablières I posées sur les jouées (voir la face postérieure C), venaient s’embréver les madriers formant chevrons et recevant les lambris intérieurs de manière à dégager le jour dormant K, les châssis rectangulaires étant seuls ouvrants.
  2. Nous fûmes donc, après les errements habituels, admis à notre cantonnement de nuit : un hangar soutenu par quatre madriers et ayant pour murs les quatre points cardinaux.

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.

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "madriers"?
"madriers" is spelled M-A-D-R-I-E-R-S. The IPA pronunciation is \ma.dʁi.je\.
What does "madriers" mean?
As a noun, "madriers" means: Pluriel de madrier.
How do you pronounce "madriers"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "madriers" is \ma.dʁi.je\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "madriers" come from?
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Similar French words by spelling shape

Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "madriers", not the corpus desk frequency band.

Same letter count

Frequency-ranked French headwords with 8 letters (nearest by frequency rank).

Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org) Structured Wiktionary extract

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list