mandarinat
French, noun/mɑ̃.da.ʁi.na/
mandarinat is spelled M-A-N-D-A-R-I-N-A-T (10 letters) and appears about once in every 44 million words in written French, the 209,747th most frequent French word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Mandarinat is a French masculine noun meaning “mandarinate” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Dignité de mandarin”.
What does mandarinat mean in English?
noun
- 1
masculinemandarinate
Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How French dictionaries define it
noun: 1. Dignité de mandarin. 2. Corps des mandarins. 3. Système de recrutement des fonctionnaires par une série d’épreuves et de concours. 4. Méritocratie basée sur les diplômes et titres universitaires.
The definition in the French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire), in French.
Source: French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire), dump of September 1, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org.
Forms of mandarinat
- mandarinats plural
Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce mandarinat?
- /mɑ̃.da.ʁi.na/
- \mɑ̃.da.ʁi.na\
Sources: English Wiktionary, French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
How common is mandarinat in French?
mandarinat appears about once in every 44 million words in written French.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).