Madwoman

Definition: Madwoman

Madwoman

Noun

1. A woman lunatic.

Date "madwoman" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1379. (references)

Domain	Usage
Movie/TV Titles	The Madwoman of Chaillot (1969)
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Domain	Title
Books	The Madwoman in the Attic: The Woman Writer and the Nineteenth-Century Literary Imagination (reference) Ou Lu Khen and the Beautiful Madwoman (reference) (more book examples)
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

"Madwoman" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Madwoman" is used about 11 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted)

Parts of Speech	Percent	Usage per 100 Million Words	Rank in English
Noun (singular)	100%	11	106,044

The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com.

Language		Translations for "madwoman"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.
Albanian		e marrë. (various references)

Arabic		‏المخبولة, ‏المجنونة. (various references)

Bulgarian		луда. (various references)

Czech		šílená žena. (various references)

French		malade (madman), folle (madman), aliénée. (various references)

German		Verrückte (crackpot, crazily, daftly, furioso, kook, loony, lunatic, madman, maniac, oddball). (various references)

Hungarian		õrült nõ. (various references)

Italian		matto (crazy, dull, false, imitation, insane, loco, loony, Loopy, lunatic, mad, madman, Matt, moonstricken, moony, nut, nuts, nutty, screwy), pazza (foolish woman, lunatic, lunatics). (various references)

Japanese Kanji		狂女 . (various references)

Japanese Katakana		きょうじょ (cooperation, gallant woman). (various references)

Pig Latin		adwomanmay.(various references)

Romanian		nebunã, demenţã (craziness, dementia, distraction, insanity, madness). (various references)

Russian		сумасшедшая. (various references)

Serbo-Croatian		luda žena. (various references)

Spanish		mujer loca, loca. (various references)

Swedish		sinnessjuk kvinna, galning (loon, loony, lunatic, madman, maniac, screwball, tomfool), dåre (fool, loony, lunatic, madman, maniac). (various references)

Turkish		deli (Batty, bedlamite, bonkers, crackers, cracky, crazy, daft, delirious, dement, demented, demon, demoniac, demoniacal, dippy, distracted, distraught, gaga, insane, loco, loony, lunatic, mad, mad about, madman, meshuggah, not all there, nutcase, nuts, nutty, off one's onion, out of one's mind, out of one's senses, phrenetic, possessed, potty, touched). (various references)

Ukranian		божевільна. (various references)

Vietnamese		người đ� n b� điên. (various references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

Misspellings
	"Madwoman" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Mudwimmen, Nadelman. (additional references)
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams
	Words within the letters "a-a-d-m-m-n-o-w"
	-2 letters: madman.
	-3 letters: adman, adown, daman, madam, monad, nomad, woman.
	-4 letters: ammo, anoa, damn, dawn, dona, down, mama, mana, mano, mawn, moan, mown, nada, noma, wand, woad.
	-5 letters: ado, ama, ana, and, awa, awn, dam, daw, dom, don, dow, mad, man, maw, moa, mod, mom, mon, mow, nam, naw, nod, nom, now, own, wad, wan, won.
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