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mangetout

/ˈmɑ̃ʒ.tuː/noun

mangetout is spelled M-A-N-G-E-T-O-U-T: 9 letters. It appears about once in every 69 million words in written English, the 262,293rd most frequent word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). As a noun, mangetout means “A vegetable pea (Pisum sativum) eaten when immature” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The plural of mangetout is mangetouts.

How many letters and syllables are in mangetout?

Letters9: M-A-N-G-E-T-O-U-T
In writingabout once in every 69 million words; the 262,293rd most frequent word form
Wrong spellings searchednone measured in search

Sources: letters and syllables from the English Wiktionary's hyphenation or pronunciation; written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).

How common is mangetout?

Mangetout appears about once in every 69 million words in written English, the 262,293rd 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 mangetout?

  • /ˈmɑ̃ʒ.tuː/
  • /mɑ̃ʒˈtuː/

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).

Forms of mangetout

  • mangetouts plural
  • mange-tout

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).

What does mangetout mean?

The meanings the English Wiktionary records, quoted as written there (source below).

noun

  1. 1

    A vegetable pea (Pisum sativum) eaten when immature.

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).

Mangetout in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese

In the sense vegetable pea eaten when immature – see also snow pea:

LanguageWords
Frenchmange-tout
GermanZuckererbse, Kaiserschote, Zuckerschote, Mange-tout

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 mangetout come from?

Borrowed from French mangetout, from mange (“eat”) + tout (“all”), since even the pod is edible.

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).

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