manants
\ma.nɑ̃\
The verdict
“manants” is uncommon French (frequency #74,978 among 5,038 “M” headwords), classed as an adjective. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #74,978
- frequency rank, French
- 5,038
- “M” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Masculin pluriel de manant.
Corpus desk
Index FR-manants · manants · French
manants · rank #74,978 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #74,978
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,038
- PHOTO-FINISH Malvy
Nearest frequency peer: Malvy (-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 « manants »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- Malabo
Malabo
25,027 corpus weight
- malmène
malmène
25,025 corpus weight
- Malvy
Malvy
25,024 corpus weight
- manants
manants
25,023 corpus weight
- manara
manara
25,022 corpus weight
- Mancunien
Mancunien
25,021 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « manants » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | manants |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | \ma.nɑ̃\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #74,978 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « manants » en français
Rare enough to double-check
manants is uncommon French at frequency #74,978 among 5,038 “M” headwords, classed as anadjective, transcribed \ma.nɑ̃\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Masculin pluriel de manant.".
manants doesn't appear in our generated misspelling index, a sign its spelling follows regular French conventions. Our confusable-pair dataset has no match for it, which typically means the spelling is too distinctive to be mistaken for another word.
No documented word history exists for this headword, so any spelling logic here comes from how the word's sounds map to letters, not a documented origin story. The correct French form is manants, spelled M-A-N-A-N-T-S.
Definition
- 1Masculin pluriel de manant.
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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