mandarine
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.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | mandarine |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \mɑ̃.da.ʁin\ |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #41,399 |
| Misspellings tracked | 13 |
| Confusable pairs | 6 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
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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
- 1Fruit 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.
- 2Projecteur à face ouverte, de forme demi-sphérique, utilisé en milieu professionnel pour la photographie, la vidéo ou le cinéma.
- 3Textile 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"
Frequency rank: #41,399 in French
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