mandarine

/\mɑ̃.da.ʁin\/ noun

Letters

9 characters

Frequency Rank

#41,399

in French word usage

Misspellings

13

tracked variants

Confusables

6

similar word pairs

mandarine is aFrenchnoun. It 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... Pronounced \mɑ̃.da.ʁin\. Often confused with mandrin and mondaine.

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)

Frequency rank visualization

Position of mandarine in French word frequency (lower rank = more common)

Source: Wordfreq corpus

Spelling & Dictionary Insight

The French entry for mandarine is 9 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \mɑ̃.da.ʁin\. Corpus data places it at rank #41,399 in overall French word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it.Wiktionary records 3 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.

Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 13 documented wrong-spelling variants for mandarine, with forms such as "amndarine", "madnarine", and "manadrine". Each variant represents a distinct typo pattern that appears often enough in corpora to be worth flagging, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution.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.

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 French form is mandarine, spelled M-A-N-D-A-R-I-N-E, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.

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])

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Common misspellings

Also misspelled as: amndarine,madnarine,manadrine,mandairne,mandarien,mandarinne,mandarnie,mandarrine,manddarine,mandraine,manndarine,mmandarine,mnadarine

Misspelling Pattern Breakdown

Relative frequency of common misspelling types for mandarine

Misspelling Variants of "mandarine"

amndarine9madnarine9manadrine9mandairne9mandarien9mandarinne10mandarnie9mandarrine10
Misspelling Variants of "mandarine"

Frequency rank: #41,399 in French

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?
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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.