mansa
"mansa" is a 5-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“mansa” is uncommon English (frequency #85,484 among 36,575 “M” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #85,484
- frequency rank, English
- 36,575
- “M” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - A king of ancient Mali.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | mansa |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #85,484 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “mansa” sits in English frequency
Rare enough to double-check
mansa is uncommon English at frequency #85,484 among 36,575 “M” headwords, classed as anoun. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "A king of ancient Mali.".
No generated misspelling entries exist for mansa in our index, since its letter sequence doesn't invite the usual edit-distance slips. Our confusable-pair dataset has no match for it, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
Etymologically, the entry records: Borrowed from Eastern Maninkakan mànsa (“king”) and other related languages. The correct English form is mansa, spelled M-A-N-S-A.
Definition
- 1A king of ancient Mali.
Etymology
Borrowed from Eastern Maninkakan mànsa (“king”) and other related languages.
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 “mansa”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct English spelling is M-A-N-S-A - 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.