mandarine

\mɑ̃.da.ʁin\

/\mɑ̃.da.ʁin\/ noun

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The verdict

“mandarine” has 13 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #41,399. The variants make it a useful spelling check.

#41,399
frequency rank, French
5,038
“M” headwords
13
tracked misspellings
6
confusable pairs

According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Fruit du mandarinier (Citrus reticulata) de la famille des agrumes. Le fruit d’un diamètre de 5 à 8 cm est sphérique et légèrement aplati. Sa chair, sucrée et parfumée, est l’une des moins acides p...

Corpus desk

Index FR-mandarine · mandarine · French

mandarine · rank #41,399 · 13 variants · 6 confusables

  • FREQ-MID #41,399
  • LEN-LONG 9 letters
  • VOW-4 4 vowels
  • CONFUS-MID 6 pairs
  • VAR-HIGH 13 variants
  • BOOK-DENSE 5,038
  • PHOTO-FINISH malware

Nearest frequency peer: malware (-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.

Pairs de rang près de l'aimant d'erreurs « mandarine »

Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin

corpus weight

What this shows « mandarine » siège parmi ces pairs FrequencyWords; la profondeur des fautes est suivie à part dans le graphique d'édition.

Source FrequencyWords open word-frequency list As of September 3, 2026

Visual similarity to commonly confused words

How many letter changes separate each confused pair (Levenshtein distance, normalized).

mandarine vs mandrin
78% similar
mandarine vs mondaine
78% similar
mandarine vs mazarine
78% similar

Source: PlainSpell confusable corpus (Wiktionary, CC BY-SA).

Key facts for mandarine
PropertyValue
Headwordmandarine
LanguageFrench
Part of speechNoun
IPA\mɑ̃.da.ʁin\
Letters9
Frequency rank#41,399
Misspellings tracked13
Confusable pairs6
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « mandarine »

La fréquence va de la poignée de mots du quotidien (gauche) à la longue queue presque jamais vue (droite).mandarinese place ici:

#1#100#1K#10K#100K
← used constantlyrarely used →

L'axe est logarithmique: chaque tic marque environ dix fois moins de fréquence. Dans la même bande de rareté figurent « malware » (#41,398), « marnes » (#41,401), « Mallory » (#41,396). Parmi 5,038 lemmes en « M », « mandarine » est au #41,399. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

A misspelling magnet

The generator records 13 spelling variants around mandarine (IPA \mɑ̃.da.ʁin\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #41,399 among 5,038 “M” headwords. Wiktionary lists 3 senses, so context still picks the gloss.

Our generated misspelling index lists 13 likely wrong-spelling variants for mandarine, with forms such as "amndarine", "madnarine", and "manadrine". Each of these forms differs from the correct spelling by one small edit: a doubled letter, a dropped silent letter, or a substituted vowel. It also participates in 6 confusable-pair relationships, "mandrin", "mondaine", "mazarine", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.

Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, so any spelling logic here comes from how the word's sounds map to letters, not a documented origin story. The correct French form is mandarine, spelled M-A-N-D-A-R-I-N-E.

Definition

  1. 1
    Fruit du mandarinier (Citrus reticulata) de la famille des agrumes. Le fruit d’un diamètre de 5 à 8 cm est sphérique et légèrement aplati. Sa chair, sucrée et parfumée, est l’une des moins acides parmi les agrumes, mais elle a de nombreux pépins. Son écorce est fine, d’une couleur rouge-orangé.
  2. 2
    Projecteur à face ouverte, de forme demi-sphérique, utilisé en milieu professionnel pour la photographie, la vidéo ou le cinéma.
  3. 3
    Textile dont la trame est en soie et la chaîne en coton.  ^([2])

Recorded use

Wiktionary examples

These source excerpts show how mandarine appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.

  1. Il passa devant un grand magasin d’épicerie et, regardant l’étalage, il vit des boîtes de mandarines. Petites mandarines, petits riens avec du jus, vous n’êtes pas faites pour les gueules des marlous.
  2. De nos jours la mandarine est cultivée en Chine, en Californie, en Amérique du Sud, de même qu’en Israël, en Algérie et au Maroc.

This word in other languages

tangerine(English)mandarina(Español)Mandarine(Deutsch)

Common misspellings

Also misspelled as:

  • amndarine
  • madnarine
  • manadrine
  • mandairne
  • mandarien
  • mandarinne
  • mandarnie
  • mandarrine
  • manddarine
  • mandraine
  • manndarine
  • mmandarine
  • mnadarine

Misspelling Pattern Breakdown

How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of mandarine - counted as single-character edits (an insertion, a deletion, or a substituted letter). The larger the bar, the easier the typo is to spot; one-edit slips are the ones that sneak past readers.

amndarine2madnarine2manadrine2mandairne2mandarien2mandarinne1mandarnie2mandarrine1
Edit distance from "mandarine"

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.

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "mandarine"?
"mandarine" is spelled M-A-N-D-A-R-I-N-E. The IPA pronunciation is \mɑ̃.da.ʁin\.
What does "mandarine" mean?
As a noun, "mandarine" means: Fruit du mandarinier (Citrus reticulata) de la famille des agrumes. Le fruit d’un diamètre de 5 à 8 cm est sphérique et légèrement aplati. Sa chair, sucrée et parfumée, est l’une des moins acides p...
What words are commonly confused with "mandarine"?
"mandarine" is commonly confused with "mandrin", "mondaine", "mazarine". These words look or sound similar but have different meanings. PlainSpell provides detailed comparisons for each pair.
How do you pronounce "mandarine"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "mandarine" is \mɑ̃.da.ʁin\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "mandarine" come from?
"mandarine" is a French word. PlainSpell covers definitions, pronunciations, and spelling data across English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, and German.
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Similar French words by spelling shape

Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "mandarine", not the corpus desk frequency band.

Same letter count

Frequency-ranked French headwords with 9 letters (nearest by frequency rank).

loufoques#41,390mitraille#41,410limogeage#41,387mollement#41,411

Similar misspelling depth

Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (13 here; floor ≥5).

ombilical13 variantsoublierais13 variantspaganisme13 variantspatineurs13 variants

Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org) Structured Wiktionary extract

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list