Manceau
\mɑ̃.so\
The verdict
“Manceau” is uncommon French (frequency #56,092 among 5,038 “M” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #56,092
- frequency rank, French
- 5,038
- “M” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Habitant du Mans, commune française située dans le département de la Sarthe.
Corpus desk
Index FR-manceau · Manceau · French
Manceau · rank #56,092 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #56,092
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,038
- PHOTO-FINISH managériales
Nearest frequency peer: managériales (-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 « Manceau »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- malvoyants
malvoyants
43,912 corpus weight
- mamba
mamba
43,911 corpus weight
- managériales
managériales
43,910 corpus weight
- Manceau
Manceau
43,909 corpus weight
- manqueraient
manqueraient
43,908 corpus weight
- manquerez
manquerez
43,907 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « Manceau » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Manceau |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \mɑ̃.so\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #56,092 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « Manceau » en français
Rare enough to double-check
Manceau is uncommon French at frequency #56,092 among 5,038 “M” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \mɑ̃.so\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Habitant du Mans, commune française située dans le département de la Sarthe.".
The misspelling generator found no plausible variants for Manceau, suggesting the orthography follows predictable French patterns. This entry stands alone in our confusable dataset, which usually means its spelling is distinct enough that readers don't reach for a similar-looking word instead.
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 Manceau, spelled M-A-N-C-E-A-U.
Definition
- 1Habitant du Mans, commune française située dans le département de la Sarthe.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how Manceau appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
L’enthousiasme religieux ou simplement militaire n’est pas leur pente et l’abbé Courtemanche était Manceau, sinon Mamertin.
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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