mangas
"mangas" is a 6-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“mangas” is uncommon English (frequency #87,524 among 4,057 “M” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #87,524
- frequency rank, English
- 4,057
- “M” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - A type of cocky, working-class man in early twentieth-century Greece, associated with violent behaviour, alcohol and hashish, and celebrated in various folk songs.
Corpus desk
Index EN-mangas · mangas · English
mangas · rank #87,524 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #87,524
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 4,057
- PHOTO-FINISH mangling
Nearest frequency peer: mangling (+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 “mangas”
Sparse band: bars invert rank so rarer forms read shorter
- makerspace
makerspace
12,481 corpus weight
- malar
malar
12,480 corpus weight
- malthouse
malthouse
12,479 corpus weight
- mangas
mangas
12,477 corpus weight
- mangling
mangling
12,476 corpus weight
- Marcion
Marcion
12,474 corpus weight
What this shows Long-tail view: where “mangas” sits against similarly uncommon English ranks.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | mangas |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #87,524 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Long-tail rank of “mangas” in English
Rare enough to double-check
mangas is uncommon English at frequency #87,524 among 4,057 “M” headwords, classed as anoun. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "A type of cocky, working-class man in early twentieth-century Greece, associated with violent behaviour, alcohol and hashish, and celebrated in various folk songs.".
mangas doesn't appear in our generated misspelling index, typically a sign the spelling maps closely to how the word sounds. We don't track a confusable pairing for this entry, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
Etymologically, the entry records: From Greek μάγκας (mágkas). The correct English form is mangas, spelled M-A-N-G-A-S.
Definition
- 1A type of cocky, working-class man in early twentieth-century Greece, associated with violent behaviour, alcohol and hashish, and celebrated in various folk songs.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how mangas appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Impoverished, disenfranchised, the mangas lived by petty crime and occasional labor.
The mangas was expected to cock a snook at authority, to be quick with a knife and ruthless in avenging insult.
Etymology
From Greek μάγκας (mágkas).
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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