mandel
/mˈændəl/
Word Rarity
Rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 2.65 in modern English
9
Scrabble Score
6
Letters
2
Syllables
6
Unique Chars
Meaning
name
A village in Rüdesheim, Bad Kreuznach district, Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany.
Countable; Uncountable
Etymology
* Germanic surname (Dutch Mandel, German Mandel, Yiddish מאַנדל (Mandl), all meaning "almond"). Also found in Slovene as Mandelj. * As a south German and Austrian surname, variant of Mandl, from Mann + -l. * As a Dutch surname, from mandel (“sheaf of wheat”) (see Mandel below). * As a Jewish surname, variant of Mendel.
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Usage
Inflected Forms
Mandels (plural)
Mandell (alternative)