mandat

/\mɑ̃.da\/ noun

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.

Key facts for mandat
PropertyValue
Headwordmandat
LanguageFrench
Part of speechNoun
IPA\mɑ̃.da\
Letters6
Frequency rank#2,000
Misspellings tracked9
Confusable pairs14
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Frequency rank visualization

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

Source: Wordfreq corpus

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

  1. 1
    Acte par lequel on commet le soin d’une affaire à une personne qui s’en charge gratuitement.
  2. 2
    Sorte 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.
  3. 3
    Durée de cette mission ; mandature.
  4. 4
    Titre de paiement, ordre de payer une certaine somme à une personne désignée par telle ou telle formule.
  5. 5
    Mandat postal.
  6. 6
    Pouvoir délivré par une autorité supérieure de police ou de justice.
  7. 7
    Régime 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"

amndat6madnat6manadt6mandatt7manddat7mandta6manndat7mmandat7
Misspelling Variants of "mandat"

Frequency rank: #2,000 in French

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "mandat"?
"mandat" is spelled M-A-N-D-A-T. The IPA pronunciation is \mɑ̃.da\.
What does "mandat" mean?
As a noun, "mandat" means: Acte par lequel on commet le soin d’une affaire à une personne qui s’en charge gratuitement.
What words are commonly confused with "mandat"?
"mandat" is commonly confused with "manga", "Mazda", "Mandy". These words look or sound similar but have different meanings. PlainSpell provides detailed comparisons for each pair.
How do you pronounce "mandat"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "mandat" is \mɑ̃.da\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "mandat" come from?
"mandat" is a French word. PlainSpell covers definitions, pronunciations, and spelling data across English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, and German.
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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.