manda
\mɑ̃.da\
The verdict
“manda” is uncommon French (frequency #62,425 among 5,038 “M” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #62,425
- frequency rank, French
- 5,038
- “M” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Troisième personne du singulier du passé simple du verbe mander.
Corpus desk
Index FR-manda · manda · French
manda · rank #62,425 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #62,425
- LEN-MID 5 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,038
- PHOTO-FINISH macrophages
Nearest frequency peer: macrophages (-1 rank slots)
Desk codes from Wiktionary headword shape, FrequencyWords rank tier, confusable-pair count, generated misspelling depth, letter-cohort book size, and photo-finish peer. Not a difficulty grade.
Rangs de longue queue près de « manda »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- Léonore
Léonore
37,579 corpus weight
- machu
machu
37,578 corpus weight
- macrophages
macrophages
37,577 corpus weight
- manda
manda
37,576 corpus weight
- mangouste
mangouste
37,575 corpus weight
- mansart
mansart
37,574 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « manda » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | manda |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \mɑ̃.da\ |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #62,425 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « manda » en français
Rare enough to double-check
manda is uncommon French at frequency #62,425 among 5,038 “M” headwords, classed as averb, transcribed \mɑ̃.da\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Troisième personne du singulier du passé simple du verbe mander.".
manda has no tracked misspelling variants, typically a sign the spelling maps closely to how the word sounds. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, which typically means the spelling is too distinctive to be mistaken for another word.
This entry carries no recorded etymology, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct French form is manda, spelled M-A-N-D-A.
Definition
- 1Troisième personne du singulier du passé simple du verbe mander.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how manda appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
En 1559, Paul IV manda Daniele Ricciarelli, mieux connu sous le nom de Daniele da Volterra, pour « caleçonner » les « parties honteuses » des nus du Jugement dernier dans la Chapelle Sixtine.
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 French corpus, MIT). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.
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