madrigal
\ma.dʁi.ɡal\
The verdict
“madrigal” is uncommon French (frequency #58,073 among 5,038 “M” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #58,073
- frequency rank, French
- 5,038
- “M” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Pièce vocale polyphonique sur un texte profane.
Corpus desk
Index FR-madrigal · madrigal · French
madrigal · rank #58,073 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #58,073
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,038
- PHOTO-FINISH lévriers
Nearest frequency peer: lévriers (-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 « madrigal »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- lexie
lexie
41,934 corpus weight
- Lied
Lied
41,933 corpus weight
- lévriers
lévriers
41,929 corpus weight
- madrigal
madrigal
41,928 corpus weight
- Madsen
Madsen
41,927 corpus weight
- malicieusem…
malicieusement
41,923 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « madrigal » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | madrigal |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ma.dʁi.ɡal\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #58,073 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « madrigal » en français
Rare enough to double-check
madrigal is uncommon French at frequency #58,073 among 5,038 “M” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \ma.dʁi.ɡal\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 3 senses are on record.
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for madrigal, a straightforward case of a spelling with little room for common typos. This entry stands alone in our confusable dataset, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so any spelling logic here comes from how the word's sounds map to letters, not a documented origin story. The correct French form is madrigal, spelled M-A-D-R-I-G-A-L.
Definition
- 1Pièce vocale polyphonique sur un texte profane.
- 2Pièce de poésie qui renferme, dans un petit nombre de vers, une pensée ingénieuse et galante.
- 3Paroles de galanterie que l’on adresse aux femmes.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how madrigal appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Vadius.– Peut-on voir rien d’égal aux sonnets que vous faites ? Trissotin.– Rien qui soit plus charmant que vos petits rondeaux ? Vadius.– Rien de si plein d’esprit que tous vos madrigaux ?
Beaucoup d’entre eux entraient dans la domesticité des nobles ; vivant à leur table, rédigeant leurs lettres et leurs billets doux, composant leurs madrigaux.
This word in other languages
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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Frequency-ranked French headwords with 8 letters (nearest by frequency rank).