jeu de manche

/\ʒø d(ə) mɑ̃ʃ\/ noun

Letters

13 characters

Language

French

word origin

Misspellings

0

tracked variants

Confusables

0

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\.

Key facts for jeu de manche
PropertyValue
Headwordjeu de manche
LanguageFrench
Part of speechNoun
IPA\ʒø d(ə) mɑ̃ʃ\
Letters13
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Frequency rank visualization

jeu de manche is not present in the top-100,000 ranked French corpus, typical for technical, archaic, or low-frequency vocabulary.

Source: Wordfreq corpus

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

  1. 1
    Action, pour les avocats en toge, de faire de grands gestes en agitant leurs manches pour impressionner l'auditoire.
  2. 2
    Façon grandiloquente de s'exprimer, faite pour impressionner et trahissant essentiellement un manque de substance.
  3. 3
    Action accomplie pour impressionner, sans menace réelle.
  4. 4
    Façons de concevoir, de faire tomber les manches d'un vêtement.

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Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "jeu de manche"?
"jeu de manche" is spelled J-E-U- -D-E- -M-A-N-C-H-E. The IPA pronunciation is \ʒø d(ə) mɑ̃ʃ\.
What does "jeu de manche" mean?
As a noun, "jeu de manche" means: Action, pour les avocats en toge, de faire de grands gestes en agitant leurs manches pour impressionner l'auditoire.
How do you pronounce "jeu de manche"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "jeu de manche" is \ʒø d(ə) mɑ̃ʃ\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "jeu de manche" come from?
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Data Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Frequency data from Wordfreq. Misspellings derived from Hunspell dictionaries.