madevsmodiWhat's the difference?

Which to use

“made” and “modi” are a confusable French pair: similar on the page, but distinct in meaning, check the gloss before you choose.

#7,860
“made” frequency rank
#45,175
“modi” frequency rank
53035
confusion score

Side-by-Side Comparison

Feature made modi
Definition Fruit du Saba senegalensis. Pluriel de modus.

Where the eye mixes made and modi

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

4 ch
made
4 ch
modi

Visual trap between made and modi

A purely visual mix-up. made (\mad\) and modi (\mɔ.di\) are said differently, so reading them aloud is the quickest way to catch the wrong one. On the page they stay close: they share most of their letters but differ in 2 positions. Our composite confusion score for this pair is 53035, 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\. modi is at rank #45,175, tagged as anoun, pronounced \mɔ.di\.

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 53035, this pair ranks #143,529 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs - roughly mid-pack for confusability.

Orthographic DNA of made vs modi

Shared letters: dm. Private to "made": ae. Private to "modi": io.

"made" · 4 letters · shape CVCV  ·  "modi" · 4 letters · shape CVCV

Known mistypes of this pair

  • madeamde · madde · maed · mdae · mmade
  • modimdoi · mmodi · moddi · moid · omdi

Frequently Asked Questions

Do "made" and "modi" mean the same thing in a sentence?
No. They are said differently (\mad\ versus \mɔ.di\) and carry different meanings; reading the sentence aloud is usually enough to catch the wrong one.
Frequency check: "made" vs "modi" - which ranks higher?
"made" is the more common of the two: it sits at frequency rank #7,860 in our French list, against #45,175 for "modi". 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 "modi" 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 "modi" - compare definitions side by side with the headword page. Word entry
  • This pair ranks #143,529 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs in this corpus vintage. Corpus statistics
  • "made" and "modi" also get mixed up with nearby pairs, the highest-scored neighbour is "modi vs mud". 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 #143,529 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