manoeuvre
ma·noeu·vre/məˈnuːvɚ/noun, verb
manoeuvre is spelled M-A-N-O-E-U-V-R-E, 3 syllables: ma·noeu·vre. The wrong spelling people search most is manouvre: about 20 Bing searches a month in the United States (September 2025 to August 2026), about 1 in 14 of all searches for the word. Manoeuvre is a noun meaning “Commonwealth standard spelling of maneuver”. The plural of manoeuvre is manoeuvres.
How many letters and syllables are in manoeuvre?
| Letters | 9: M-A-N-O-E-U-V-R-E |
|---|---|
| Syllables | 3: ma·noeu·vre |
| In writing | 1.1 times per million words; the 27,820th most frequent word form |
| Wrong spellings searched | 2; the most searched, manouvre, about 20 Bing searches a month (all of them) |
| Rhymes with |
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); Bing searches in the United States: the average month from September 2025 to August 2026 (Microsoft Advertising keyword data through DataForSEO, read September 30, 2026); rhymes and same-letter words are computed by PlainSpell from its own word list.
How do you spell manoeuvre?
Manoeuvre is spelled M-A-N-O-E-U-V-R-E. 2 wrong spellings are searched or written often enough to measure; together they are about 1 in 10 of the searches for manoeuvre in either form.
Bing searches in the United States: the average month from September 2025 to August 2026 (Microsoft Advertising keyword data through DataForSEO, read September 30, 2026). Wrong spellings are taken from Wiktionary entries tagged "misspelling" and its obsolete or nonstandard forms, Wikipedia's Lists of common misspellings and the codespell dictionary, then measured. The proofreader's marks show the change that corrects each one.
How common is manoeuvre?
Manoeuvre appears 1.1 times per million words in written English, the 27,820th 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 manoeuvre?
- UK /məˈnuːvə/
- US /məˈnuːvɚ/
Manoeuvre has 3 syllables, split ma·noeu·vre in writing.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Recordings: En-uk-Manoeuvre.ogg, En-us-maneuver.ogg, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).
What rhymes with manoeuvre?
5 words on PlainSpell end in the same sounds as manoeuvre from its last stressed vowel (/uvəɹ/):
Computed by PlainSpell from the pronunciations in the English Wiktionary (dump of September 2, 2026): a rhyme shares every sound from the last stressed vowel to the end; ordered by written frequency (wordfreq 3.1).
Forms of manoeuvre
- manoeuvres plural, present, singular, he/she/it
- manoeuvring participle, present
- manoeuvred participle, past
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
What does manoeuvre mean?
The meanings the English Wiktionary records, quoted as written there (source below).
noun
- 1
Commonwealth standard spelling of maneuver.
verb
- 1
Commonwealth standard spelling of maneuver.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
Where does manoeuvre come from?
From Middle French manœuvre (“manipulation, manoeuvre”) and manouvrer (“to manoeuvre”), from Old French manovre (“handwork, manual labour”), from Medieval Latin manopera, manuopera (“work done by hand, handwork”), from manu (“by hand”) + operari (“to work”). First recorded in the Capitularies of Charlemagne (800 AD) to mean "chore, manual task", probably as a calque of the Frankish *handwerc (“hand-work”). Compare Old English handweorc, Old English handġeweorc, German Handwerk.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).