Magdeleine
The verdict
“Magdeleine” is uncommon French (frequency #51,591 among 5,038 “M” headwords), classed as a proper noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #51,591
- frequency rank, French
- 5,038
- “M” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Prénom féminin.
Corpus desk
Index FR-magdeleine · Magdeleine · French
Magdeleine · rank #51,591 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #51,591
- LEN-MEGA 10 letters
- VOW-5 5 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,038
- PHOTO-FINISH mafieuse
Nearest frequency peer: mafieuse (-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 « Magdeleine »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- machiniste
machiniste
48,413 corpus weight
- macroéconom…
macroéconomiques
48,412 corpus weight
- mafieuse
mafieuse
48,411 corpus weight
- Magdeleine
Magdeleine
48,410 corpus weight
- magnétophone
magnétophone
48,409 corpus weight
- malfaisant
malfaisant
48,408 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « Magdeleine » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Magdeleine |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| Letters | 10 |
| Frequency rank | #51,591 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « Magdeleine » en français
Rare enough to double-check
Magdeleine is uncommon French at frequency #51,591 among 5,038 “M” headwords, classed as aproper noun. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Prénom féminin.".
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for Magdeleine, since its letter pattern doesn't lend itself to common typo substitutions. This entry stands alone in our confusable dataset, a sign it's visually distinctive enough not to be mixed up with another word.
This entry carries no recorded etymology, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct French form is Magdeleine, spelled M-A-G-D-E-L-E-I-N-E.
Definition
- 1Prénom féminin.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how Magdeleine appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Et, sur son front, chastement, ainsi que le Christ baisa Magdeleine, je l’embrassai.
Ma cousine Magdeleine vint passer quelques jours à Paris : je sautai sur l’occasion.
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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