manœuvres
\ma.nœvʁ\
The verdict
“manœuvres” has 13 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #12,194. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #12,194
- frequency rank, French
- 5,038
- “M” headwords
- 13
- tracked misspellings
- 3
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Pluriel de manœuvre (personne).
Corpus desk
Index FR-man-uvres · manœuvres · French
manœuvres · rank #12,194 · 13 variants · 3 confusables
- FREQ-MID #12,194
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-LOW 3 pairs
- VAR-HIGH 13 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,038
- PHOTO-FINISH malédiction
Nearest frequency peer: malédiction (-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.
Pairs de rang près de l'aimant d'erreurs « manœuvres »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- malo
malo
87,810 corpus weight
- Malte
Malte
87,809 corpus weight
- malédiction
malédiction
87,808 corpus weight
- manœuvres
manœuvres
87,807 corpus weight
- map
map
87,806 corpus weight
- masculins
masculins
87,805 corpus weight
What this shows « manœuvres » siège parmi ces pairs FrequencyWords; la profondeur des fautes est suivie à part dans le graphique d'édition.
Visual similarity to commonly confused words
How many letter changes separate each confused pair (Levenshtein distance, normalized).
Source: PlainSpell confusable corpus (Wiktionary, CC BY-SA).
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | manœuvres |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ma.nœvʁ\ |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #12,194 |
| Misspellings tracked | 13 |
| Confusable pairs | 3 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « manœuvres »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 13 spelling variants around manœuvres (IPA \ma.nœvʁ\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #12,194 among 5,038 “M” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Pluriel de manœuvre (personne).".
Our generated misspelling index lists 13 likely wrong-spelling variants for manœuvres, with forms such as "amnœuvres", "mannœuvres", and "manuœvres". Each of these forms differs from the correct spelling by one small edit: a doubled letter, a dropped silent letter, or a substituted vowel. It also participates in 3 confusable-pair relationships, "manoeuvre", "manœuvre", "manœuvrer", a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.
This entry's etymology isn't recorded, so its spelling is best read as a straightforward mapping from sound to letter. The correct French form is manœuvres, spelled M-A-N-Œ-U-V-R-E-S.
Definition
- 1Pluriel de manœuvre (personne).
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how manœuvres appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Ces voyages étaient de véritables aventures et il convenait chaque fois de se préparer au pire en emportant pelles, haches, machettes, crics, tire-forts et surtout les inévitables "caisse-popote", "lit-picot" et moustiquaires, sans oublier un ou deux manœuvres. — (Bernard Le Doux, O Tangani, Liv’éditions, 1994)
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- amnœuvres
- mannœuvres
- manuœvres
- manœurves
- manœuvers
- manœuvress
- manœuvrres
- manœuvrse
- manœuvvres
- manœvures
- maœnuvres
- mmanœuvres
- mnaœuvres
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of manœuvres - expressed in single-character edits (insert, delete, or swap one letter). Bigger bars stand out at a glance; a one-edit slip is the hardest to catch.
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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Same letter count
Frequency-ranked French headwords with 9 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (13 here; floor ≥5).