mandement

\mɑ̃d.mɑ̃\

/\mɑ̃d.mɑ̃\/ noun

The verdict

“mandement” has 14 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #43,002. The variants make it a useful spelling check.

#43,002
frequency rank, French
5,038
“M” headwords
14
tracked misspellings
3
confusable pairs

According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Écrit qu’un évêque fait publier dans l’étendue de son diocèse et par lequel il donne aux fidèles des instructions ou des ordres relatifs à la religion.

Corpus desk

Index FR-mandement · mandement · French

mandement · rank #43,002 · 14 variants · 3 confusables

  • FREQ-MID #43,002
  • LEN-LONG 9 letters
  • VOW-3 3 vowels
  • CONFUS-LOW 3 pairs
  • VAR-HIGH 14 variants
  • BOOK-DENSE 5,038
  • PHOTO-FINISH maladif

Nearest frequency peer: maladif (-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.

Pairs de rang près de l'aimant d'erreurs « mandement »

Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin

corpus weight

What this shows « mandement » siège parmi ces pairs FrequencyWords; la profondeur des fautes est suivie à part dans le graphique d'édition.

Source FrequencyWords open word-frequency list As of September 3, 2026

Visual similarity to commonly confused words

How many letter changes separate each confused pair (Levenshtein distance, normalized).

mandement vs maniement
89% similar
mandement vs manquement
80% similar
mandement vs management
80% similar

Source: PlainSpell confusable corpus (Wiktionary, CC BY-SA).

Key facts for mandement
PropertyValue
Headwordmandement
LanguageFrench
Part of speechNoun
IPA\mɑ̃d.mɑ̃\
Letters9
Frequency rank#43,002
Misspellings tracked14
Confusable pairs3
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « mandement »

La fréquence va de la poignée de mots du quotidien (gauche) à la longue queue presque jamais vue (droite).mandementse place ici:

#1#100#1K#10K#100K
← used constantlyrarely used →

L'axe est logarithmique: chaque tic marque environ dix fois moins de fréquence. Dans la même bande de rareté figurent « maladif » (#43,001), « maintienne » (#43,000), « Maryam » (#43,004). Parmi 5,038 lemmes en « M », « mandement » est au #43,002. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

A misspelling magnet

The generator records 14 spelling variants around mandement (IPA \mɑ̃d.mɑ̃\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #43,002 among 5,038 “M” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Écrit qu’un évêque fait publier dans l’étendue de son diocèse et par lequel il donne aux fidèles des instructions ou des ordres relatifs à la religion.".

Our generated misspelling index lists 14 likely wrong-spelling variants for mandement, with forms such as "amndement", "madnement", and "manddement". Every one of these variants traces to a single-character edit -- an added or dropped letter, a swapped consonant, or a vowel swap -- the kind of slip a spell-checker is built to catch. It also participates in 3 confusable-pair relationships, "maniement", "manquement", "management", a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.

Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. The correct French form is mandement, spelled M-A-N-D-E-M-E-N-T.

Definition

  1. 1
    Écrit qu’un évêque fait publier dans l’étendue de son diocèse et par lequel il donne aux fidèles des instructions ou des ordres relatifs à la religion.

Recorded use

Wiktionary examples

These source excerpts show how mandement appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.

  1. Aussi les prêtres ne chantaient-ils point le "Domine salvum", malgré le mandement de l’évêque.
  2. RENNES – […] Quelques traces de piété lourde et de recrudescence catholique ; une énorme croix de bronze portée sur une boule dorée, avec un gros piédestal de granit, élevée en 1817 ; un mandement emphatique sur la dégénérescence des caractères et la noblesse du Breton ; ces gémissements d’évêque qui foudroie la civilisation moderne, finissent par la perm…

This word in other languages

Common misspellings

Also misspelled as:

  • amndement
  • madnement
  • manddement
  • mandeemnt
  • mandemennt
  • mandementt
  • mandemetn
  • mandemment
  • mandemnet
  • mandmeent
  • manedment
  • manndement
  • mmandement
  • mnadement

Misspelling Pattern Breakdown

How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of mandement - counted as single-character edits (an insertion, a deletion, or a substituted letter). The larger the bar, the easier the typo is to spot; one-edit slips are the ones that sneak past readers.

amndement2madnement2manddement1mandeemnt2mandemennt1mandementt1mandemetn2mandemment1
Edit distance from "mandement"

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.

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "mandement"?
"mandement" is spelled M-A-N-D-E-M-E-N-T. The IPA pronunciation is \mɑ̃d.mɑ̃\.
What does "mandement" mean?
As a noun, "mandement" means: Écrit qu’un évêque fait publier dans l’étendue de son diocèse et par lequel il donne aux fidèles des instructions ou des ordres relatifs à la religion.
What words are commonly confused with "mandement"?
"mandement" is commonly confused with "maniement", "manquement", "management". These words look or sound similar but have different meanings. PlainSpell provides detailed comparisons for each pair.
How do you pronounce "mandement"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "mandement" is \mɑ̃d.mɑ̃\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "mandement" come from?
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Similar French words by spelling shape

Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "mandement", not the corpus desk frequency band.

Same letter count

Frequency-ranked French headwords with 9 letters (nearest by frequency rank).

Similar misspelling depth

Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (14 here; floor ≥5).

Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org) Structured Wiktionary extract

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list