manju

noun

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"manju" is a 5-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.

The verdict

“manju” is uncommon English (frequency #77,896 among 4,057 “M” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.

#77,896
frequency rank, English
4,057
“M” headwords

According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - A traditional Japanese confection; most have an outside made from flour, rice powder, kudzu, and buckwheat, and a filling of red bean paste, usually made from boiled azuki beans and sugar; in Hawai...

Corpus desk

Index EN-manju · manju · English

manju · rank #77,896 · 0 variants · 0 confusables

  • FREQ-RARE #77,896
  • LEN-MID 5 letters
  • VOW-2 2 vowels
  • CONFUS-0 No pairs
  • VAR-0 0 variants
  • BOOK-MID 4,057
  • PHOTO-FINISH Mandurah

Nearest frequency peer: Mandurah (-1 rank slots)

Read with this headword: Spelling guide for this pattern

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Long-tail ranks near “manju”

Sparse band: bars invert rank so rarer forms read shorter

corpus weight

What this shows Long-tail view: where “manju” sits against similarly uncommon English ranks.

Source FrequencyWords open word-frequency list As of September 3, 2026
Key facts for manju
PropertyValue
Headwordmanju
LanguageEnglish
Part of speechNoun
Letters5
Frequency rank#77,896
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Long-tail rank of “manju” in English

This scale runs from the tiny cluster of words that carry ordinary speech (left) to the long tail of words almost nobody reaches for (right).manjufalls in this rarity band:

#1#100#1K#10K#100K
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The axis is logarithmic, with each marked tick roughly ten times rarer than the last. Rare peers in the same band: “Mandurah” (#77,895), “mannitol” (#77,897), “Manbij” (#77,894). Among 4,057 “M” headwords, “manju” is #77,896. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

Rare enough to double-check

manju is uncommon English at frequency #77,896 among 4,057 “M” headwords, classed as anoun. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "A traditional Japanese confection; most have an outside made from flour, rice powder, kudzu, and buckwheat, and a filling of red bean paste, usually made from boiled azuki beans and sugar; in Hawai...".

manju has no tracked misspelling variants, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.

Etymologically, the entry records: From Japanese 饅頭 (manjū), from Chinese 饅頭 /馒头 (mántou). Doublet of mandu, manti, and mantou. The correct English form is manju, spelled M-A-N-J-U.

Definition

  1. 1
    A traditional Japanese confection; most have an outside made from flour, rice powder, kudzu, and buckwheat, and a filling of red bean paste, usually made from boiled azuki beans and sugar; in Hawaii, Okinawan ones are made with a filling of purple sweet potato, butter, milk, sugar, and salt, but the most common filling is bean paste.

Recorded use

Wiktionary examples

These source excerpts show how manju appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.

  1. Then, replying to Gyowo’s interrogation, he announced that as he had as many manju cakes as he wished for, and as he was no more use in this world, he would not mind dying.
  2. My mother opened a large bag and took out four bottles of beer, some manjus and iced cakes.

Etymology

From Japanese 饅頭 (manjū), from Chinese 饅頭 /馒头 (mántou). Doublet of mandu, manti, and mantou.

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.

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "manju"?
"manju" is spelled M-A-N-J-U.
What does "manju" mean?
As a noun, "manju" means: A traditional Japanese confection; most have an outside made from flour, rice powder, kudzu, and buckwheat, and a filling of red bean paste, usually made from boiled azuki beans and sugar; in Hawai...
What is the origin of the word "manju"?
From Japanese 饅頭 (manjū), from Chinese 饅頭 /馒头 (mántou). Doublet of mandu, manti, and mantou. See the full etymology section above for more details.
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Similar English words by spelling shape

Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "manju", not the corpus desk frequency band.

Same letter count

Frequency-ranked English headwords with 5 letters (nearest by frequency rank).

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Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org) Structured Wiktionary extract

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list