madrigal
/mɐ.dɾi.ˈɡaɫ/
The verdict
“madrigal” is an uncommon Portuguese word, ranked #64,922 in Portuguese word frequency and used as a noun.
- #64,922
- frequency rank, Portuguese
- 8
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - composição poética musicada surgida na Itália típica do século XVI
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | madrigal |
| Language | Portuguese |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | /mɐ.dɾi.ˈɡaɫ/ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #64,922 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “madrigal” sits in Portuguese frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The Portuguese entry for madrigal is 8 letters long, classified as a noun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as /mɐ.dɾi.ˈɡaɫ/. Corpus data places it at rank #64,922 in overall Portuguese word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it. The dominant gloss from Wiktionary reads: "composição poética musicada surgida na Itália típica do século XVI".
No misspelling variants are generated for madrigal in our index, which points to an orthography that plays by predictable Portuguese rules. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
This entry carries no recorded etymology, so its spelling is easiest explained by how it's pronounced rather than where it came from. The correct Portuguese form is madrigal, spelled M-A-D-R-I-G-A-L.
Definition
- 1composição poética musicada surgida na Itália típica do século XVI
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 Portuguese corpus, MIT). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.
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Using “madrigal”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct Portuguese spelling is M-A-D-R-I-G-A-L - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
- Say it as /mɐ.dɾi.ˈɡaɫ/ (IPA); tap the speaker on the pronunciation badge to hear it where audio exists.
- Browse more Portuguese words and confusable pairs in the same reference. Portuguese words
Data Source
Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Word ordering uses an open word-frequency list; misspelling variants are generated by edit-distance from the correct headword.