manche à balai
\mɑ̃.ʃ‿a ba.lɛ\
The verdict
“manche à balai” is uncommon French (outside the top frequency list), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency French
- 14
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Manche d'un balai.
Corpus desk
Index FR-manche-a-balai · manche à balai · French
manche à balai · unranked · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-UNRANKED Unranked
- LEN-MEGA 14 letters
- VOW-6 6 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-THIN "M" thin
- PHOTO-UNK Peer pending
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.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | manche à balai |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \mɑ̃.ʃ‿a ba.lɛ\ |
| Letters | 14 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
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Rare enough to double-check
manche à balai is uncommon French outside the top frequency list, classed as anoun, transcribed \mɑ̃.ʃ‿a ba.lɛ\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 3 senses are on record.
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for manche à balai, typically a sign the spelling maps closely to how the word sounds. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, since its spelling is unusual enough that it doesn't cluster with a lookalike.
This entry's etymology isn't recorded, 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 manche à balai, spelled M-A-N-C-H-E- -À- -B-A-L-A-I.
Definition
- 1Manche d'un balai.
- 2Manette de direction, levier de commande de l’avion. (par analogie de forme avec le manche d’un balai.)
- 3Dispositif de commande à plusieurs degrés de liberté servant à déplacer le curseur d’un écran de visualisation.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how manche à balai appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Le corps, une espèce de manche à balai, décemment couvert d’une robe, jouissait des avantages de la nature morte, il ne remuait point.
— Voilà encore ces vieilles folles qui se croient au sabbat, dit-il, et qui font plus de bruit que lorsqu’elles y arrivent à cheval sur un manche à balai.
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Definitions, pronunciation, and etymology for this entry are drawn from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org structured extract (CC BY-SA). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.