Madsen
The verdict
“Madsen” is uncommon French (frequency #58,074 among 5,038 “M” headwords), classed as a proper noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #58,074
- frequency rank, French
- 5,038
- “M” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Nom de famille.
Corpus desk
Index FR-madsen · Madsen · French
Madsen · rank #58,074 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #58,074
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,038
- PHOTO-FINISH madrigal
Nearest frequency peer: madrigal (-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 « Madsen »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- 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
- manage
manage
41,922 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « Madsen » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Madsen |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #58,074 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « Madsen » en français
Rare enough to double-check
Madsen is uncommon French at frequency #58,074 among 5,038 “M” headwords, classed as aproper noun. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Nom de famille.".
Madsen has no tracked misspelling variants, suggesting the orthography follows predictable French patterns. Our dataset records no confusable match here, a sign it's visually distinctive enough not to be mixed up with another word.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, so its spelling is easiest explained by how it's pronounced rather than where it came from. The correct French form is Madsen, spelled M-A-D-S-E-N.
Definition
- 1Nom de famille.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how Madsen appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Une trouvaille encensée comme la « découverte d’or du siècle » en Norvège par le directeur du musée archéologique de l’université de Stavanger, Ole Madsen.
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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