Manama
\ma.na.ma\
The verdict
“Manama” is uncommon French (frequency #90,911 among 5,038 “M” headwords), classed as a proper noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #90,911
- frequency rank, French
- 5,038
- “M” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Capitale de Bahreïn.
Corpus desk
Index FR-manama · Manama · French
Manama · rank #90,911 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #90,911
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,038
- PHOTO-FINISH maloya
Nearest frequency peer: maloya (-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 « Manama »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- malaisiens
malaisiens
9,093 corpus weight
- Malak
Malak
9,092 corpus weight
- maloya
maloya
9,091 corpus weight
- Manama
Manama
9,090 corpus weight
- mangerons
mangerons
9,089 corpus weight
- manly
manly
9,088 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « Manama » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Manama |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| IPA | \ma.na.ma\ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #90,911 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « Manama » en français
Rare enough to double-check
Manama is uncommon French at frequency #90,911 among 5,038 “M” headwords, classed as aproper noun, transcribed \ma.na.ma\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Capitale de Bahreïn.".
Zero misspellings are on record for Manama in our index, since its letter pattern doesn't lend itself to common typo substitutions. This headword has no recorded confusable partner, since its spelling is unusual enough that it doesn't cluster with a lookalike.
This entry carries no recorded etymology, 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 Manama, spelled M-A-N-A-M-A.
Definition
- 1Capitale de Bahreïn.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how Manama appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Le souq reste le cœur historique de Manama. Au XIXᵉ siècle, Manama n’est en réalité qu’un ensemble de pauvres villages de pêcheurs. Ce n’est seulement qu’à la fin du XIXᵉ siècle que Manama devient à proprement parler une ville […]
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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