manna
/ˈmænə/
"manna" is a 5-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“manna” is a moderately-common English word, ranked #37,082 in English word frequency and used as a noun.
- #37,082
- frequency rank, English
- 5
- letters
- 4
- tracked misspellings
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - Food miraculously produced for the Israelites in the desert in the book of Exodus.
Visual similarity to commonly confused words
How many letter changes separate each confused pair (Levenshtein distance, normalized).
Source: PlainSpell confusable corpus (Wiktionary, CC BY-SA).
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | manna |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | /ˈmænə/ |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #37,082 |
| Misspellings tracked | 4 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “manna” sits in English frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The English entry for manna is 5 letters long, classified as a noun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as /ˈmænə/. Corpus data places it at rank #37,082 in overall English word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it. Wiktionary records 3 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our generated misspelling index lists 4 likely wrong-spelling variants for manna, with forms such as "amnna", "manan", and "mmanna". Every one of these variants traces to a single-character edit -- an added or dropped letter, a swapped consonant, or a vowel swap -- the kind of slip a spell-checker is built to catch. It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "many", "Maya", "mans", and more, a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.
Etymologically, the entry records: From Middle English, from Old English, from Late Latin manna, from Ancient Greek μάννα (mánna), from Hebrew מן (mān, “'manna”). The correct English form is manna, spelled M-A-N-N-A.
Definition
- 1Food miraculously produced for the Israelites in the desert in the book of Exodus.
- 2Any boon which comes into one's hands by good luck.
- 3The sugary sap of the manna gum tree which oozes out from holes drilled by insects and falls to the ground around the tree.
Etymology
From Middle English, from Old English, from Late Latin manna, from Ancient Greek μάννα (mánna), from Hebrew מן (mān, “'manna”).
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: amnna,manan,mmanna,mnana
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of manna - counted as single-character edits (an insertion, a deletion, or a substituted letter). The larger the bar, the easier the typo is to spot; one-edit slips are the ones that sneak past readers.
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 “manna”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct English spelling is M-A-N-N-A - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
- Say it as /ˈmænə/ (IPA); tap the speaker on the pronunciation badge to hear it where audio exists.
- Don't mix it up with “many” - see the side-by-side comparison. manna vs many
- Browse more English words and confusable pairs in the same reference. English words
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.