manciple
/ˈmænsɪpəl/
"manciple" is a 8-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“manciple” is uncommon English (outside the top frequency list), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency English
- 8
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - A person in charge of purchasing and storing food and other provisions in a monastery, college, or court of law.
Corpus desk
Index EN-manciple · manciple · English
manciple · unranked · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-UNRANKED Unranked
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-THIN "M" thin
- PHOTO-UNK Peer pending
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.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | manciple |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | /ˈmænsɪpəl/ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Long-tail rank of “manciple” in English
Rare enough to double-check
manciple is uncommon English outside the top frequency list, classed as anoun, transcribed /ˈmænsɪpəl/. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "A person in charge of purchasing and storing food and other provisions in a monastery, college, or court of law.".
manciple doesn't appear in our generated misspelling index, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. 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: From Middle English maunciple, from Old French manciple, from Medieval Latin mancipiolum (“lowly servant”), diminutive of Latin mancipium (“slave”). The correct English form is manciple, spelled M-A-N-C-I-P-L-E.
Definition
- 1A person in charge of purchasing and storing food and other provisions in a monastery, college, or court of law.
Etymology
From Middle English maunciple, from Old French manciple, from Medieval Latin mancipiolum (“lowly servant”), diminutive of Latin mancipium (“slave”).
Definitions, pronunciation, and etymology for this entry are drawn from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org structured extract (CC BY-SA). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.