mandater
\mɑ̃.da.te\
The verdict
“mandater” is uncommon French (frequency #84,996 among 5,038 “M” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #84,996
- frequency rank, French
- 5,038
- “M” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Inscrire sur un mandat, suivant telle ou telle formule, une somme à payer.
Corpus desk
Index FR-mandater · mandater · French
mandater · rank #84,996 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #84,996
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,038
- PHOTO-FINISH mancuniens
Nearest frequency peer: mancuniens (-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 « mandater »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- maids
maids
15,008 corpus weight
- majorettes
majorettes
15,007 corpus weight
- mancuniens
mancuniens
15,006 corpus weight
- mandater
mandater
15,005 corpus weight
- manipulait
manipulait
15,004 corpus weight
- marieront
marieront
15,003 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « mandater » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | mandater |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \mɑ̃.da.te\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #84,996 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « mandater » en français
Rare enough to double-check
mandater is uncommon French at frequency #84,996 among 5,038 “M” headwords, classed as averb, transcribed \mɑ̃.da.te\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
Zero misspellings are on record for mandater in our index, since its letter sequence doesn't invite the usual edit-distance slips. No confusable counterpart is on file for this word, a sign it's visually distinctive enough not to be mixed up with another word.
No borrowing history is documented for this entry, so any spelling logic here comes from how the word's sounds map to letters, not a documented origin story. The correct French form is mandater, spelled M-A-N-D-A-T-E-R.
Definition
- 1Inscrire sur un mandat, suivant telle ou telle formule, une somme à payer.
- 2Munir quelqu’un d’un mandat.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how mandater appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Mandater une somme de trois mille euros.
Êtes-vous mandaté pour cela ?
This word in other languages
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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