jeu de manche
Letters
13 characters
Language
French
word origin
Misspellings
0
tracked variants
Confusables
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similar word pairs
jeu de manche is aFrenchnoun. It means: Action, pour les avocats en toge, de faire de grands gestes en agitant leurs manches pour impressionner l'auditoire. Pronounced \ʒø d(ə) mɑ̃ʃ\.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | jeu de manche |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ʒø d(ə) mɑ̃ʃ\ |
| Letters | 13 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
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Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for jeu de manche is 13 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \ʒø d(ə) mɑ̃ʃ\. It sits outside the most-frequent rank tiers, which is often why uncommon words generate more spelling variants per reader.Wiktionary records 4 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
No frequent misspelling variants are recorded for jeu de manche in our index, suggesting the orthography either follows predictable French patterns or the word is uncommon enough that typo corpora lack signal.It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. For readers arriving here from a spelling check, the authoritative guidance is: the correct French form is jeu de manche, spelled J-E-U- -D-E- -M-A-N-C-H-E, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Action, pour les avocats en toge, de faire de grands gestes en agitant leurs manches pour impressionner l'auditoire.
- 2Façon grandiloquente de s'exprimer, faite pour impressionner et trahissant essentiellement un manque de substance.
- 3Action accomplie pour impressionner, sans menace réelle.
- 4Façons de concevoir, de faire tomber les manches d'un vêtement.
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