mandragore
\mɑ̃.dʁa.ɡɔʁ\
The verdict
“mandragore” is uncommon French (frequency #60,939 among 5,038 “M” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #60,939
- frequency rank, French
- 5,038
- “M” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Plante de la famille des solanées, dont la racine a la forme d’un corps humain, douée de propriétés narcotiques, sédatives, stupéfiantes et aphrodisiaques.
Corpus desk
Index FR-mandragore · mandragore · French
mandragore · rank #60,939 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #60,939
- LEN-MEGA 10 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,038
- PHOTO-FINISH mangala
Nearest frequency peer: mangala (+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 « mandragore »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- maisonnettes
maisonnettes
39,066 corpus weight
- majestueuses
majestueuses
39,065 corpus weight
- mandragore
mandragore
39,062 corpus weight
- mangala
mangala
39,061 corpus weight
- manifestées
manifestées
39,060 corpus weight
- manqueras
manqueras
39,059 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « mandragore » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | mandragore |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \mɑ̃.dʁa.ɡɔʁ\ |
| Letters | 10 |
| Frequency rank | #60,939 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « mandragore » en français
Rare enough to double-check
mandragore is uncommon French at frequency #60,939 among 5,038 “M” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \mɑ̃.dʁa.ɡɔʁ\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
We couldn't generate a plausible misspelling set for mandragore, a sign its spelling follows regular French conventions. This headword has no recorded confusable partner, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
This entry carries no recorded etymology, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct French form is mandragore, spelled M-A-N-D-R-A-G-O-R-E.
Definition
- 1Plante de la famille des solanées, dont la racine a la forme d’un corps humain, douée de propriétés narcotiques, sédatives, stupéfiantes et aphrodisiaques.
- 2Plante de la famille des solanées dite porteuse de vertus magiques.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how mandragore appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
On employait autrefois en pareil cas la mandragore, qu’on a abandonnée depuis ; toujours est-il certain que sa racine […] guérit les inflammations et les douleurs des yeux.
Ce sentier a ceci de dangereux, qu’il est bordé de Mandragores qui, la nuit, chantent au pied des arbres.
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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