mandarins
\mɑ̃.da.ʁɛ̃\
The verdict
“mandarins” is uncommon French (frequency #59,422 among 5,038 “M” headwords), classed as an adjective. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #59,422
- frequency rank, French
- 5,038
- “M” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Masculin pluriel de mandarin.
Corpus desk
Index FR-mandarins · mandarins · French
mandarins · rank #59,422 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #59,422
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,038
- PHOTO-FINISH malmenés
Nearest frequency peer: malmenés (-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 « mandarins »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- maja
maja
40,582 corpus weight
- malencontre…
malencontreux
40,581 corpus weight
- malmenés
malmenés
40,580 corpus weight
- mandarins
mandarins
40,579 corpus weight
- mande
mande
40,578 corpus weight
- manichéen
manichéen
40,577 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « mandarins » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | mandarins |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | \mɑ̃.da.ʁɛ̃\ |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #59,422 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « mandarins » en français
Rare enough to double-check
mandarins is uncommon French at frequency #59,422 among 5,038 “M” headwords, classed as anadjective, transcribed \mɑ̃.da.ʁɛ̃\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Masculin pluriel de mandarin.".
The misspelling generator found no plausible variants for mandarins, a sign its spelling follows regular French conventions. No confusable counterpart is on file for this word, a sign it's visually distinctive enough not to be mixed up with another word.
Our source data has no etymology on file for this entry, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct French form is mandarins, spelled M-A-N-D-A-R-I-N-S.
Definition
- 1Masculin pluriel de mandarin.
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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