mangaka
/ˈmɑŋɡəkə/noun
mangaka is a noun meaning “A professional manga or anime artist” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is spelled M-A-N-G-A-K-A, and it appears about once in every 13 million words in written English (wordfreq, 2021 data). The plural of mangaka is mangakas.
What does mangaka mean?
noun
- 1
A professional manga or anime artist.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How do you pronounce mangaka?
- UK /ˈmæŋɡəkə/
- UK /ˈmɑːŋɡəkə/
- US /ˈmɑŋɡəkə/
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Recordings: LL-Q1860_(eng)-Flame,_not_lame-mangaka.wav, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).
Forms of mangaka
- mangakas plural
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How common is mangaka?
Mangaka appears about once in every 13 million words in written English, the 109,062nd 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).
Mangaka in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese
In the sense a professional manga or anime artist:
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 mangaka come from?
Borrowed from Japanese 漫(まん)画(が)家(か) (mangaka). Doublet of manhwaga and manhuajia.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).