manches
Letters
7 characters
Frequency Rank
#5,580
in French word usage
Misspellings
11
tracked variants
Confusables
20
similar word pairs
manches is aFrenchnoun. It means: Pluriel de manche. Pronounced \mɑ̃ʃ\. It ranks #5,580 in French word frequency. Often confused with marché and matchs.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | manches |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \mɑ̃ʃ\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #5,580 |
| Misspellings tracked | 11 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for manches is 7 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \mɑ̃ʃ\. Corpus data places it at rank #5,580 in overall French word frequency, indicating it appears regularly in written and spoken text.The dominant gloss from Wiktionary reads: "Pluriel de manche.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 11 likely wrong-spelling variants for manches, with forms such as "amnches", "macnhes", and "mancches". Each variant is a distinct typo pattern an edit-distance generator flags, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution.It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "marché", "matchs", "manges", 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 manches, spelled M-A-N-C-H-E-S, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Pluriel de manche.
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: amnches,macnhes,mancches,mancehs,manchess,manchhes,manchse,manhces,mannches,mmanches,mnaches
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
Relative frequency of common misspelling types for manches
Misspelling Variants of "manches"
Frequency rank: #5,580 in French
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