mandingue
\mɑ̃.dɛ̃ɡ\
The verdict
“mandingue” is uncommon French (frequency #75,879 among 5,038 “M” headwords), classed as an adjective. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #75,879
- frequency rank, French
- 5,038
- “M” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Relatif à des peuples de la côte ouest de l’Afrique, parlant des langues de la même famille que le bambara, le mandinka, etc.
Corpus desk
Index FR-mandingue · mandingue · French
mandingue · rank #75,879 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #75,879
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,038
- PHOTO-FINISH mandibulaire
Nearest frequency peer: mandibulaire (-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 « mandingue »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- Malvina
Malvina
24,125 corpus weight
- mamou
mamou
24,124 corpus weight
- mandibulaire
mandibulaire
24,123 corpus weight
- mandingue
mandingue
24,122 corpus weight
- mandrier
mandrier
24,121 corpus weight
- manutention…
manutentionnaire
24,119 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « mandingue » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | mandingue |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | \mɑ̃.dɛ̃ɡ\ |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #75,879 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « mandingue » en français
Rare enough to double-check
mandingue is uncommon French at frequency #75,879 among 5,038 “M” headwords, classed as anadjective, transcribed \mɑ̃.dɛ̃ɡ\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Relatif à des peuples de la côte ouest de l’Afrique, parlant des langues de la même famille que le bambara, le mandinka, etc.".
No generated misspelling entries exist for mandingue in our index, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. Our dataset records no confusable match here, a sign it's visually distinctive enough not to be mixed up with another word.
No borrowing history is documented for this entry, 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 mandingue, spelled M-A-N-D-I-N-G-U-E.
Definition
- 1Relatif à des peuples de la côte ouest de l’Afrique, parlant des langues de la même famille que le bambara, le mandinka, etc.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how mandingue appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Depuis longtemps déjà, il s’était appliqué à l’étude de la langue arabe et de divers idiomes mandingues ; grâce à ses dispositions de polyglotte, il fit de rapides progrès.
On m’apporta un petit enfant blanc dont le père et la mère étaient noirs. […]. Il poussait ses premières dents ; ses lèvres étaient un peu épaisses, et il avait beaucoup de la physionomie mandingue.
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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