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manor

/ˈmænəɹ/noun

manor is spelled M-A-N-O-R: 5 letters and 2 syllables. It appears 6.5 times per million words in written English, the 9,463rd most frequent word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). People search “manner vs manor” about 1,600 times a month (Google, United States). As a noun, manor means “A landed estate” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The plural of manor is manors.

How many letters and syllables are in manor?

Letters5: M-A-N-O-R
Syllables2 (from its American pronunciation)
In writing6.5 times per million words; the 9,463rd most frequent word form
Wrong spellings searchednone measured in search
Pairs people search
Sounds like
Rhymes with
Same letters

Sources: letters and syllables from the English Wiktionary's hyphenation or pronunciation and the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary; 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 common is manor?

Manor appears 6.5 times per million words in written English, the 9,463rd 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 manor?

  • UK /ˈmænə(ɹ)/
  • US /ˈmænəɹ/

Manor has 2 syllables (counted from its American pronunciation in the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary).

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Recordings: En-au-manor.ogg, LL-Q1860_(eng)-Gibraltar_Rocks-manor.wav, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).

Words people confuse with manor

Word pairs people search, with the monthly searches for “a vs b” (G: Google, B: Bing, United States).

manner vs manor1,600 G

Sounds like: manna, manner (Wiktionary's homophone list; some hold only in some accents).

Sources: Google and Bing searches (September 2025 to August 2026, through DataForSEO); English Wiktionary (homophones, alternative spellings).

What rhymes with manor?

4 words on PlainSpell end in the same sounds as manor from its last stressed vowel (/ænəɹ/):

Spelled with the same letters in another order: roman, moran, norma, maron, morna.

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 manor

  • manors plural
  • manour

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

What does manor mean?

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

noun

  1. 1

    A landed estate.

  2. 2

    The main house of such an estate or a similar residence; a mansion.

  3. 3

    A district over which a feudal lord could exercise certain rights and privileges in medieval western Europe.

  4. 4

    The lord's residence and seat of control in such a district.

  5. 5

    UKslangAny home area or territory in which authority is exercised, often in a police or criminal context.

  6. 6

    slangOne's neighbourhood.

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

Manor in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese

LanguageWords
Frenchmanoir (landed estate), maison-forte (the main house of such an estate or a similar…), seigneurie (district over which a feudal lord could…)
GermanLandgut, Landsitz, Gut, Manor, Rittergut (landed estate), Herrenhaus (the main house of such an estate or a similar…)
Spanishfinca, señorío (landed estate), casa solariega, casal, pazo (the main house of such an estate or a similar…)
Portuguesesolar, mansão (the main house of such an estate or a similar…), feudo (district over which a feudal lord could…)

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 manor come from?

From Middle English maner, manour; from Old French manoir, from earlier maneir, from Latin manēre. Doublet of maenor.

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

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