manant
\ma.nɑ̃\
The verdict
“manant” is uncommon French (frequency #82,211 among 5,038 “M” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #82,211
- frequency rank, French
- 5,038
- “M” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Roturier citadin ne disposant pas du statut de bourgeois, rattaché au domaine seigneurial.
Corpus desk
Index FR-manant · manant · French
manant · rank #82,211 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #82,211
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,038
- PHOTO-FINISH mainlevée
Nearest frequency peer: mainlevée (-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 « manant »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- Mafalda
Mafalda
17,794 corpus weight
- magnifie
magnifie
17,793 corpus weight
- mainlevée
mainlevée
17,791 corpus weight
- manant
manant
17,790 corpus weight
- manipules
manipules
17,789 corpus weight
- maran
maran
17,787 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « manant » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | manant |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ma.nɑ̃\ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #82,211 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « manant » en français
Rare enough to double-check
manant is uncommon French at frequency #82,211 among 5,038 “M” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \ma.nɑ̃\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 4 senses are on record.
The misspelling generator found no plausible variants for manant, suggesting the orthography follows predictable French patterns. Our dataset records no confusable match here, since no other headword is close enough in sound or shape to pair with it.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct French form is manant, spelled M-A-N-A-N-T.
Definition
- 1Roturier citadin ne disposant pas du statut de bourgeois, rattaché au domaine seigneurial.
- 2Paysan, vilain, habitant d’un village sous l’Ancien Régime.
- 3Personnage grossier, mal élevé.
- 4Être inférieur qui croit faire un travail noble.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how manant appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Le manant était souvent un riche paysan propriétaire.
Voilà tout le résultat de votre belle invention d’avoir assemblé les bourgeois, les vilains et autres manants pour leur faire approuver les décisions du roi. À présent le peuple s’arroge le droit de juger.
This word in other languages
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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