Manaus
/mɑːˈnaʊs/
"manaus" is a 6-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“Manaus” is uncommon English (frequency #53,680 among 36,575 “M” headwords), classed as a proper noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #53,680
- frequency rank, English
- 36,575
- “M” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - A municipality, the state capital of Amazonas, Brazil.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Manaus |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| IPA | /mɑːˈnaʊs/ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #53,680 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “Manaus” sits in English frequency
Rare enough to double-check
Manaus is uncommon English at frequency #53,680 among 36,575 “M” headwords, classed as aproper noun, transcribed /mɑːˈnaʊs/. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "A municipality, the state capital of Amazonas, Brazil.".
No misspelling variants are generated for Manaus in our index, which points to an orthography that plays by predictable English rules. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
Etymologically, the entry records: Borrowed from Portuguese Manaus, after the Manáo, a native Lokono tribe of the Amazon. Manáo is said to mean mother of the gods. The correct English form is Manaus, spelled M-A-N-A-U-S.
Definition
- 1A municipality, the state capital of Amazonas, Brazil.
Etymology
Borrowed from Portuguese Manaus, after the Manáo, a native Lokono tribe of the Amazon. Manáo is said to mean mother of the gods.
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 English corpus, MIT). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.
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Using “Manaus”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct English spelling is M-A-N-A-U-S - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
- Say it as /mɑːˈnaʊs/ (IPA); tap the speaker on the pronunciation badge to hear it where audio exists.
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Data Source
Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Word ordering uses an open word-frequency list; misspelling variants are generated by edit-distance from the correct headword.