Manteca
"manteca" is a 7-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“Manteca” is uncommon English (frequency #93,953 among 4,057 “M” headwords), classed as a proper noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #93,953
- frequency rank, English
- 4,057
- “M” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - A city in San Joaquin County, California, United States.
Corpus desk
Index EN-manteca · Manteca · English
Manteca · rank #93,953 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #93,953
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 4,057
- PHOTO-FINISH mandamus
Nearest frequency peer: mandamus (-1 rank slots)
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Desk codes from Wiktionary headword shape, FrequencyWords rank tier, confusable-pair count, generated misspelling depth, letter-cohort book size, and photo-finish peer. Not a difficulty grade.
Frequency neighbourhood for “Manteca”
Lower corpus rank = more everyday usage (inverted bar length for readability)
- mahila
mahila
6,052 corpus weight
- Malwa
Malwa
6,050 corpus weight
- mandamus
mandamus
6,049 corpus weight
- Manteca
Manteca
6,048 corpus weight
- Marechal
Marechal
6,045 corpus weight
- marvelling
marvelling
6,042 corpus weight
What this shows Bars show where “Manteca” sits against the nearest ranked English headwords in the FrequencyWords band, not a reprint of letter-browse containment.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Manteca |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #93,953 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “Manteca” sits in English frequency
Rare enough to double-check
Manteca is uncommon English at frequency #93,953 among 4,057 “M” headwords, classed as aproper noun. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "A city in San Joaquin County, California, United States.".
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for Manteca, typically a sign the spelling maps closely to how the word sounds. Our confusable-pair dataset has no match for it, since no other headword is close enough in sound or shape to pair with it.
Etymologically, the entry records: Borrowed from Spanish manteca. The correct English form is Manteca, spelled M-A-N-T-E-C-A.
Definition
- 1A city in San Joaquin County, California, United States.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how Manteca appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
“I am completely disgusted in sharing with you that, later yesterday evening, I received a call from the Manteca PD that the suspect in this horrific crime turns out to (be) my 18-year-old son,” McAllister wrote in a note on the police department’s Facebook page on Wednesday.
Etymology
Borrowed from Spanish manteca.
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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