mandala
\mɑ̃.da.la\
The verdict
“mandala” is uncommon French (frequency #50,346 among 5,038 “M” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #50,346
- frequency rank, French
- 5,038
- “M” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Représentation symbolique et circulaire de l’univers qui sert de support à la méditation.
Corpus desk
Index FR-mandala · mandala · French
mandala · rank #50,346 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #50,346
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,038
- PHOTO-FINISH malia
Nearest frequency peer: malia (-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 « mandala »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- magistrate
magistrate
49,659 corpus weight
- Makoto
Makoto
49,657 corpus weight
- malia
malia
49,656 corpus weight
- mandala
mandala
49,655 corpus weight
- manoirs
manoirs
49,654 corpus weight
- Mascouche
Mascouche
49,652 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « mandala » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | mandala |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \mɑ̃.da.la\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #50,346 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « mandala » en français
Rare enough to double-check
mandala is uncommon French at frequency #50,346 among 5,038 “M” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \mɑ̃.da.la\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for mandala, since its letter pattern doesn't lend itself to common typo substitutions. This entry stands alone in our confusable dataset, since no other headword is close enough in sound or shape to pair with it.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. The correct French form is mandala, spelled M-A-N-D-A-L-A.
Definition
- 1Représentation symbolique et circulaire de l’univers qui sert de support à la méditation.
- 2Chapitre du Rig-Véda.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how mandala appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Pour se débarrasser du trouble, il faut inviter un Atchareia et disposer un mandala (cercle magique) de cinq couleurs (fine), chaque côté de ce mandala doit avoir quatre coudées, il doit avoir quatre portes, et au milieu l'on met l'autel.
Des malades qu'il [le docteur Jung] soigne et à qui il a demandé de faire des dessins, ont reproduit, sans le savoir, des signes symboliques extrêmement anciens […]. Par exemple les mandalas ou cercles magiques ornés de croix et de serpents.
This word in other languages
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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