manet
"manet" is a 5-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“manet” is uncommon English (frequency #51,233 among 36,575 “M” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #51,233
- frequency rank, English
- 36,575
- “M” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - Used in stage directions; literally, he, she or it remains. Compare exit, exeunt.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | manet |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #51,233 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “manet” sits in English frequency
Rare enough to double-check
manet is uncommon English at frequency #51,233 among 36,575 “M” headwords, classed as averb. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Used in stage directions; literally, he, she or it remains. Compare exit, exeunt.".
manet has no tracked misspelling variants, a straightforward case of a spelling with little room for common typos. Our confusable-pair dataset has no match for it, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
Etymologically, the entry records: From Latin manet (“he remains”), manent (“they remain”), inflections of maneō. The correct English form is manet, spelled M-A-N-E-T.
Definition
- 1Used in stage directions; literally, he, she or it remains. Compare exit, exeunt.
Etymology
From Latin manet (“he remains”), manent (“they remain”), inflections of maneō.
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 “manet”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct English spelling is M-A-N-E-T - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
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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.