Manaus
/mɑːˈnaʊs/
"manaus" is a 6-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“Manaus” is uncommon English (frequency #53,680 among 4,057 “M” headwords), classed as a proper noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #53,680
- frequency rank, English
- 4,057
- “M” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - A municipality, the state capital of Amazonas, Brazil.
Corpus desk
Index EN-manaus · Manaus · English
Manaus · rank #53,680 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #53,680
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 4,057
- PHOTO-FINISH mammogram
Nearest frequency peer: mammogram (-1 rank slots)
Read with this headword: Spelling guide for this pattern
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.
Long-tail ranks near “Manaus”
Sparse band: bars invert rank so rarer forms read shorter
- Mahabharata
Mahabharata
46,325 corpus weight
- mammogram
mammogram
46,322 corpus weight
- Manaus
Manaus
46,321 corpus weight
- Marky
Marky
46,319 corpus weight
- Martinsville
Martinsville
46,318 corpus weight
- masterplan
masterplan
46,317 corpus weight
What this shows Long-tail view: where “Manaus” sits against similarly uncommon English ranks.
| 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) |
Long-tail rank of “Manaus” in English
Rare enough to double-check
Manaus is uncommon English at frequency #53,680 among 4,057 “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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