mane
/meɪn/noun
mane is spelled M-A-N-E: 4 letters and one syllable. It appears 2.1 times per million words in written English, the 18,811th most frequent word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). People search “main vs mane” about 50 times a month (Google, United States). As a noun, mane means “Longer hair growth on back of neck of an animal, especially a horse or lion” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The plural of mane is manes.
How many letters and syllables are in mane?
| Letters | 4: M-A-N-E |
|---|---|
| Syllables | 1 (from its American pronunciation) |
| In writing | 2.1 times per million words; the 18,811th most frequent word form |
| Wrong spellings searched | none measured in search |
| Pairs people search | |
| Sounds like | |
| Rhymes with | |
| Same letters |
Sources: letters and syllables from the English Wiktionary's hyphenation or pronunciation and the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary; written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media); Bing searches in the United States: the average month from September 2025 to August 2026 (Microsoft Advertising keyword data through DataForSEO, read September 30, 2026); rhymes and same-letter words are computed by PlainSpell from its own word list.
How common is mane?
Mane appears 2.1 times per million words in written English, the 18,811th most frequent word form in the list.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).
How do you pronounce mane?
- /meɪn/
Mane has one syllable (counted from its American pronunciation in the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary).
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Recordings: En-us-mane.ogg, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).
Words people confuse with mane
Word pairs people search, with the monthly searches for “a vs b” (G: Google, B: Bing, United States).
Sounds like: main (Wiktionary's homophone list; some hold only in some accents).
Sources: Google and Bing searches (September 2025 to August 2026, through DataForSEO); English Wiktionary (homophones, alternative spellings).
What rhymes with mane?
2 words on PlainSpell end in the same sounds as mane from its last stressed vowel (/eɪn/, British pronunciation):
Spelled with the same letters in another order: name, mean, amen.
Computed by PlainSpell from the pronunciations in the English Wiktionary (dump of September 2, 2026): a rhyme shares every sound from the last stressed vowel to the end; ordered by written frequency (wordfreq 3.1).
Forms of mane
- manes plural
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
What does mane mean?
The meanings the English Wiktionary records, quoted as written there (source below).
noun
- 1
Longer hair growth on back of neck of an animal, especially a horse or lion.
- 2
Long or thick hair of a person's head.
- 3
Part of a naval sword between the tang button and the quillon.
- 4
slangEye dialect spelling of man.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
Mane in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese
| Language | Words |
|---|---|
| French | crinière , -mane |
| German | Mähne |
| Portuguese | crina, coma , -ómano, -ômano , juba |
| Spanish | crin , melena, guedeja |
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Translations are Wiktionary's, by sense; a linked word has its own PlainSpell page.
Where does mane come from?
From Middle English mane, mayne, from Old English manu (“mane”), from Proto-West Germanic *manu, from Proto-Germanic *manō (“mane”), from Proto-Indo-European *mony-, *mon- (“neck”).
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).