manche
Letters
6 characters
Frequency Rank
#3,085
in French word usage
Misspellings
9
tracked variants
Confusables
20
similar word pairs
manche is aFrenchnoun. It means: Partie du vêtement, de forme et de dimension variable, dans laquelle on passe le bras et qui le recouvre en totalité ou en partie. Pronounced \mɑ̃ʃ\. It ranks #3,085 in French word frequency. Often confused with mane and match.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | manche |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \mɑ̃ʃ\ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #3,085 |
| Misspellings tracked | 9 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for manche is 6 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \mɑ̃ʃ\. Corpus data places it at rank #3,085 in overall French word frequency, indicating it appears regularly in written and spoken text.Wiktionary records 7 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 9 documented wrong-spelling variants for manche, with forms such as "amnche", "macnhe", and "mancche". Each variant represents a distinct typo pattern that appears often enough in corpora to be worth flagging, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution.It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "mane", "match", "mange", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. For readers arriving here from a spelling check, the authoritative guidance is: the correct French form is manche, spelled M-A-N-C-H-E, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Partie du vêtement, de forme et de dimension variable, dans laquelle on passe le bras et qui le recouvre en totalité ou en partie.
- 2Conduit d’évacuation, tuyau à liquide ou à gaz.
- 3Manche à air : drapeau creux indiquant le vent sur les aéroports.
- 4Filet de pêche long d’une dizaine de mètres et fermé à une extrémité.
- 5Bras de mer, et particulièrement le bras de mer séparant l’Angleterre de la France (la Manche).
- 6Partie liée à une ou plusieurs autre(s) dans certains jeux.
- 7Meuble représentant une manche d’un vêtement dans les armoiries. Plutôt en usage en héraldique anglaise, elle est représentée sans membre humain. Elle est généralement dénommée manche mal-taillée en héraldique française car la forme du vêtement s’est perdue au fil du temps pour adopter une forme souvent peu reconnaissable.
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Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: amnche,macnhe,mancche,manceh,manchhe,manhce,mannche,mmanche,mnache
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
Relative frequency of common misspelling types for manche
Misspelling Variants of "manche"
Frequency rank: #3,085 in French
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