mandat
Letters
6 characters
Frequency Rank
#2,000
in French word usage
Misspellings
9
tracked variants
Confusables
14
similar word pairs
mandat is aFrenchnoun. It means: Acte par lequel on commet le soin d’une affaire à une personne qui s’en charge gratuitement. Pronounced \mɑ̃.da\. It ranks #2,000 in French word frequency. Often confused with manga and Mazda.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | mandat |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \mɑ̃.da\ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #2,000 |
| Misspellings tracked | 9 |
| Confusable pairs | 14 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for mandat is 6 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \mɑ̃.da\. Corpus data places it at rank #2,000 in overall French word frequency, indicating it appears regularly in written and spoken text.Wiktionary records 7 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 9 documented wrong-spelling variants for mandat, with forms such as "amndat", "madnat", and "manadt". 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 14 confusable-pair relationships, "manga", "Mazda", "Mandy", 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 mandat, spelled M-A-N-D-A-T, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Acte par lequel on commet le soin d’une affaire à une personne qui s’en charge gratuitement.
- 2Sorte de contrat moral qui existe entre un député et ses électeurs, par suite des opinions qu’il s’est engagé vis-à-vis d’eux à défendre, avant son élection.
- 3Durée de cette mission ; mandature.
- 4Titre de paiement, ordre de payer une certaine somme à une personne désignée par telle ou telle formule.
- 5Mandat postal.
- 6Pouvoir délivré par une autorité supérieure de police ou de justice.
- 7Régime international qui avait vocation à s’appliquer aux anciennes colonies allemandes ou ottomanes à l’époque de la Société des Nations.
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Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: amndat,madnat,manadt,mandatt,manddat,mandta,manndat,mmandat,mnadat
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
Relative frequency of common misspelling types for mandat
Misspelling Variants of "mandat"
Frequency rank: #2,000 in French
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