manœuvrant
The verdict
“manœuvrant” is uncommon French (frequency #96,103 among 5,038 “M” headwords), classed as an adjective. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #96,103
- frequency rank, French
- 5,038
- “M” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Qui obéit aux manœuvres, en parlant d’un navire.
Corpus desk
Index FR-man-uvrant · manœuvrant · French
manœuvrant · rank #96,103 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #96,103
- LEN-MEGA 10 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,038
- PHOTO-FINISH manquions
Nearest frequency peer: manquions (-1 rank slots)
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.
Rangs de longue queue près de « manœuvrant »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- manni
manni
3,900 corpus weight
- manquions
manquions
3,899 corpus weight
- manœuvrant
manœuvrant
3,898 corpus weight
- Maraval
Maraval
3,897 corpus weight
- Marinella
Marinella
3,896 corpus weight
- marinières
marinières
3,895 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « manœuvrant » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | manœuvrant |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| Letters | 10 |
| Frequency rank | #96,103 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « manœuvrant » en français
Rare enough to double-check
manœuvrant is uncommon French at frequency #96,103 among 5,038 “M” headwords, classed as anadjective. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Qui obéit aux manœuvres, en parlant d’un navire.".
No generated misspelling entries exist for manœuvrant in our index, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, which typically means the spelling is too distinctive to be mistaken for another word.
Our source data has no etymology on file for this entry, so its spelling is best explained by sound-to-letter mapping rather than etymology. The correct French form is manœuvrant, spelled M-A-N-Œ-U-V-R-A-N-T.
Definition
- 1Qui obéit aux manœuvres, en parlant d’un navire.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how manœuvrant appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
L’avantage restera toujours au navire le plus manœuvrant et le mieux manœuvré.
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 French corpus, MIT). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.
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