frotte-manche
\fʁɔt.mɑ̃ʃ\
The verdict
“frotte-manche” is uncommon French (outside the top frequency list), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency French
- 13
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Flatteur, lèchecul, lèche-botte.
Corpus desk
Index FR-frotte-manche · frotte-manche · French
frotte-manche · unranked · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-UNRANKED Unranked
- LEN-MEGA 13 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-THIN "F" thin
- PHOTO-UNK Peer pending
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.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | frotte-manche |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \fʁɔt.mɑ̃ʃ\ |
| Letters | 13 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
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Rare enough to double-check
frotte-manche is uncommon French outside the top frequency list, classed as anoun, transcribed \fʁɔt.mɑ̃ʃ\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Flatteur, lèchecul, lèche-botte.".
frotte-manche doesn't appear in our generated misspelling index, since its letter sequence doesn't invite the usual edit-distance slips. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, a sign it's visually distinctive enough not to be mixed up with another word.
Our source data has no etymology on file for this entry, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. The correct French form is frotte-manche, spelled F-R-O-T-T-E---M-A-N-C-H-E.
Definition
- 1Flatteur, lèchecul, lèche-botte.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how frotte-manche appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Il est donc le frotte-manche de service, plus populairement appelé lèche-cul par ses collègues.
Definitions, pronunciation, and etymology for this entry are drawn from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org structured extract (CC BY-SA). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.