MagdavsmageWhich spelling fits?

Quick tell: Magda is a name, mage is a noun, so they fill different roles in a sentence.

Which to use

“Magda” is a name and “mage” is a noun - they look or sound alike but fill different roles in a sentence.

#41,395
“Magda” frequency rank
#20,491
“mage” frequency rank
61886
confusion score

Side-by-Side Comparison

Feature Magda mage
Definition Prénom féminin, correspondant à Madeleine. Prêtre de la religion de Zoroastre, chez les Perses et les Mèdes.

Letter map: Magda vs mage

Shared letters muted; letters that set Magda and mage apart highlighted. Shared run: 3.

5 ch
Magda
4 ch
mage

Part-of-speech tell for Magda / mage

Our dataset has no pronunciation recorded for both members, so the reliable separator here is grammatical: Magda is aname and mageanoun. On the page they differ by 1 letter(s) in length. Our composite confusion score for this pair is 61886, derived from the frequency rank of both members and their visual similarity.

Magda is recorded at frequency rank #41,395, classified as aname. mage is at rank #20,491, tagged as anoun, pronounced \maʒ\.

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 61886, this pair ranks #89,914 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs - among the most confusable pairs.

Orthographic DNA of Magda vs mage

Shared letters: agm. Private to "Magda": d. Private to "mage": e.

"Magda" · 5 letters · shape CVCCV  ·  "mage" · 4 letters · shape CVCV

Known mistypes of this pair

  • Magdaamgda · madga · magad · magdda · maggda · mgada · mmagda
  • mageamge · maeg · magge · mgae · mmage

Frequently Asked Questions

Is swapping "Magda" for "mage" ever safe?
No - they are not even the same part of speech. "Magda" is a name and "mage" a noun, so a sentence built for one is usually ungrammatical with the other.
Frequency check: "Magda" vs "mage" - which ranks higher?
"mage" is the more common of the two: it sits at frequency rank #20,491 in our French list, against #41,395 for "Magda". The two are close in frequency, so neither is a safe default; check the meaning rather than guessing.

After this comparison

Pair "Magda" vs "mage" is on the table, pick a follow-up below.

  • Full dictionary entry for "Magda" with definition, IPA, and generated misspellings. Word entry
  • Full dictionary entry for "mage" - compare definitions side by side with the headword page. Word entry
  • This pair ranks #89,914 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs in this corpus vintage. Corpus statistics
  • "Magda" and "mage" also get mixed up with nearby pairs, the highest-scored neighbour is "Magda vs maid". 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 #89,914 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