mandarino

/[mãn̪d̪aˈɾino]/ noun

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9 characters

Language

Spanish

word origin

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mandarino is aSpanishnoun. It means: (Citrus spp). Nombre de varias especies de árboles frutales, especialmente el Citrus reticulata, de la familia de las Rutáceas, de porte mediano, hojas perennes muy verdes, medianas, alargadas, y t... Pronounced [mãn̪d̪aˈɾino].

Key facts for mandarino
PropertyValue
Headwordmandarino
LanguageSpanish
Part of speechNoun
IPA[mãn̪d̪aˈɾino]
Letters9
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Frequency rank visualization

mandarino is not present in the top-100,000 ranked Spanish corpus, typical for technical, archaic, or low-frequency vocabulary.

Source: Wordfreq corpus

Spelling & Dictionary Insight

The Spanish entry for mandarino is 9 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [mãn̪d̪aˈɾino]. It sits outside the most-frequent rank tiers, which is often why uncommon words generate more spelling variants per reader.The dominant gloss from Wiktionary reads: "(Citrus spp). Nombre de varias especies de árboles frutales, especialmente el Citrus reticulata, de la familia de las Rutáceas, de porte mediano, hojas perennes muy verdes, medianas, alargadas, y t...".

No frequent misspelling variants are recorded for mandarino in our index, suggesting the orthography either follows predictable Spanish patterns or the word is uncommon enough that typo corpora lack signal.It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.

No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. For readers arriving here from a spelling check, the authoritative guidance is: the correct Spanish form is mandarino, spelled M-A-N-D-A-R-I-N-O, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.

Definition

  1. 1
    (Citrus spp). Nombre de varias especies de árboles frutales, especialmente el Citrus reticulata, de la familia de las Rutáceas, de porte mediano, hojas perennes muy verdes, medianas, alargadas, y terminadas en punta. Las flores aparecen en las axilas de las hojas, solitarias o en racimos. Su fruto es la mandarina, similar a la naranja, pero por lo general más dulce y perfumada, cáscara más suave y textura menos consistente. Consta de gajos jugosos de color naranjado rojizo, ricos en vitamina C.

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "mandarino"?
"mandarino" is spelled M-A-N-D-A-R-I-N-O. The IPA pronunciation is [mãn̪d̪aˈɾino].
What does "mandarino" mean?
As a noun, "mandarino" means: (Citrus spp). Nombre de varias especies de árboles frutales, especialmente el Citrus reticulata, de la familia de las Rutáceas, de porte mediano, hojas perennes muy verdes, medianas, alargadas, y t...
How do you pronounce "mandarino"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "mandarino" is [mãn̪d̪aˈɾino]. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
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Data Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Frequency data from Wordfreq. Misspellings derived from Hunspell dictionaries.