Manne
"manne" is a 5-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“Manne” is uncommon English (frequency #75,180 among 36,575 “M” headwords), classed as a proper noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #75,180
- frequency rank, English
- 36,575
- “M” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - A surname.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Manne |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #75,180 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “Manne” sits in English frequency
Rare enough to double-check
Manne is uncommon English at frequency #75,180 among 36,575 “M” headwords, classed as aproper noun. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "A surname.".
No generated misspelling entries exist for Manne in our index, since its letter pattern doesn't lend itself to common typo substitutions. Our dataset records no confusable match here, which typically means the spelling is too distinctive to be mistaken for another word.
Etymologically, the entry records: Various origins: * Borrowed from Telugu మన్నె (manne); this surname is mostly found in Telangana. * Variant of the Dutch surname Mann. * Borrowed from French Manne, a metonymic occupational surname for a maker of a kind of basket with two handles. * Borrowe… The correct English form is Manne, spelled M-A-N-N-E.
Definition
- 1A surname.
Etymology
Various origins: * Borrowed from Telugu మన్నె (manne); this surname is mostly found in Telangana. * Variant of the Dutch surname Mann. * Borrowed from French Manne, a metonymic occupational surname for a maker of a kind of basket with two handles. * Borrowed from Yiddish מֹרְדְּכַי (Manēh).
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 “Manne”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct English spelling is M-A-N-N-E - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
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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.