How to pronounce mentat

mentat is most commonly pronounced "men tat" (/ˈmɛntæt/). This is the widely-used reading among engineers, though edge cases exist.

AI coding tool by AbanteAI — currently MentatBot, a GitHub-native coding agent (earlier archived CLI shared the name). Name borrowed from the "Mentats" (human computers) of Frank Herbert's Dune, from Latin mentis / mentation. STRESS-pattern: MEN-tat (first syllable). "tat" rhymes with "cat"; "men" rhymes with "ten".

Source: Mentat (AbanteAI) official site

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