madevsmdrWhich spelling fits?

Quick tell: made is a noun, mdr is an intj, so they fill different roles in a sentence.

Which to use

“made” is a noun and “mdr” is an intj - they look or sound alike but fill different roles in a sentence.

#7,860
“made” frequency rank
#9,512
“mdr” frequency rank
17372
confusion score

Side-by-Side Comparison

Feature made mdr
Definition Fruit du Saba senegalensis. Formule qui est principalement utilisée à l’écrit (sur internet puis par texto) et qui indique que celui qui le note est en train de rire ou est amusé. Mais elle peut également être utilisée pour signaler son étonnement dans une situation inhabituelle.

Where the eye mixes made and mdr

Muted = shared; highlighted = the visual trap. They share 2 letters in sequence.

4 ch
made
3 ch
mdr

Look-alike desk: made vs mdr

These two trip readers on the page rather than in the ear: made is \mad\ while mdr is \ɛm.de.ɛʁ\. Spoken aloud the problem disappears. In writing it persists, because they differ by 1 letter(s) in length, and the parts of speech differ too (noun vs intj), which is usually the fastest check. Our composite confusion score for this pair is 17372, derived from the frequency rank of both members and their visual similarity.

made is recorded at frequency rank #7,860, classified as anoun, pronounced \mad\. mdr is at rank #9,512, tagged as anintj, pronounced \ɛm.de.ɛʁ\.

Glosses for this pair are partially populated in our dataset, but the full side-by-side definitions above should still guide you to the right choice.

With a confusion score of 17372, this pair ranks #383,504 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs - a relatively easy-to-tell-apart pair.

Orthographic DNA of made vs mdr

Shared letters: dm. Private to "made": ae. Private to "mdr": r.

"made" · 4 letters · shape CVCV  ·  "mdr" · 3 letters · shape CCC

Known mistypes of this pair

  • madeamde · madde · maed · mdae · mmade

Frequently Asked Questions

Can "made" and "mdr" be used interchangeably?
No - they are not even the same part of speech. "made" is a noun and "mdr" an intj, so a sentence built for one is usually ungrammatical with the other.
Frequency check: "made" vs "mdr" - which ranks higher?
"made" is the more common of the two: it sits at frequency rank #7,860 in our French list, against #9,512 for "mdr". The two are close in frequency, so neither is a safe default; check the meaning rather than guessing.

What to do next

Eye-level mix-up between "made" and "mdr" is sorted above. Next: full entries or other pairs that share a letter shape.

  • Full dictionary entry for "made" with definition, IPA, and generated misspellings. Word entry
  • Full dictionary entry for "mdr" - compare definitions side by side with the headword page. Word entry
  • This pair ranks #383,504 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs in this corpus vintage. Corpus statistics
  • "made" and "mdr" also get mixed up with nearby pairs, the highest-scored neighbour is "mdr vs MWh". Nearby pair
  • Recorded mistypes exist for at least one side of this pair, useful when a spell-checker or OCR lands on the wrong form. See mistypes

Confusion rank #383,504 of 440,172 scored French pairs, corpus vintage 2026-09-03, not spelling advice.

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

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list