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manure

ma·nure/məˈnʊɹ/verb, noun

manure is spelled M-A-N-U-R-E: 6 letters and 2 syllables (ma·nure). It appears 1.6 times per million words in written English, the 22,362nd most frequent word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). As a verb, manure means “To apply manure (as fertilizer or soil improver)” (English Wiktionary, September 2026).

How many letters and syllables are in manure?

Letters6: M-A-N-U-R-E
Syllables2: ma·nure
In writing1.6 times per million words; the 22,362nd most frequent word form
Wrong spellings searchednone measured in search
Rhymes with
Same letters

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); rhymes and same-letter words are computed by PlainSpell from its own word list.

How common is manure?

Manure appears 1.6 times per million words in written English, the 22,362nd 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 manure?

  • UK /məˈnjʊə/
  • UK /məˈnjɔː/
  • US /məˈnʊɹ/

Manure has 2 syllables, split ma·nure in writing.

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

What rhymes with manure?

The 12 most written words on PlainSpell end in the same sounds as manure from its last stressed vowel (/ʊɹ/):

Spelled with the same letters in another order: ramune.

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 manure

  • manures present, singular, he/she/it, plural
  • manuring participle, present
  • manured participle, past

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

What does manure mean?

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

verb

  1. 1

    archaicTo cultivate by manual labor; to till; hence, to develop by culture.

  2. 2

    To apply manure (as fertilizer or soil improver).

    The farmer manured his fallow field.

noun

  1. 1

    Animal excrement, especially that of common domestic farm animals and when used as fertilizer. Generally speaking, from cows, horses, sheep, pigs and chickens.

  2. 2

    Any fertilizing substance, whether of animal origin or not; fertiliser.

    vegetable manure [⁠= green manure⁠]

  3. 3

    Rubbish; nonsense; bullshit.

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

Manure in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese

LanguageWords
Spanishcultivar (to cultivate by manual labor), estercolar, abonar (to apply manure), estiércol, abono (excrement)
Germandüngen (to apply manure), Mist, Dung, Odel (excrement)
Portugueseestercar, estrumar (to apply manure), estrume, esterco (excrement)
Frenchfumier, purin (excrement)

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 manure come from?

From Middle English maynouren, manuren (“to supervise, toil”), borrowed from Anglo-Norman meinourer and Old French manovrer (whence also English maneuver, or in French manœuvrer) from Vulgar Latin *manuoperare (“work by hand”), from Latin manū (“by hand”) + operārī (“to work”). Displaced native (in the plural) Old English mes.

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

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