manchons
\mɑ̃.ʃɔ̃\
The verdict
“manchons” is uncommon French (frequency #66,896 among 5,038 “M” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #66,896
- frequency rank, French
- 5,038
- “M” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Pluriel de manchon.
Corpus desk
Index FR-manchons · manchons · French
manchons · rank #66,896 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #66,896
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,038
- PHOTO-FINISH maléfices
Nearest frequency peer: maléfices (-2 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 « manchons »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- mals
mals
33,109 corpus weight
- maltraitent
maltraitent
33,108 corpus weight
- maléfices
maléfices
33,107 corpus weight
- manchons
manchons
33,105 corpus weight
- manigance
manigance
33,103 corpus weight
- maraudeur
maraudeur
33,101 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « manchons » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | manchons |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \mɑ̃.ʃɔ̃\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #66,896 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « manchons » en français
Rare enough to double-check
manchons is uncommon French at frequency #66,896 among 5,038 “M” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \mɑ̃.ʃɔ̃\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Pluriel de manchon.".
manchons has no tracked misspelling variants, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. Our dataset records no confusable match here, since no other headword is close enough in sound or shape to pair with it.
No documented word history exists for this headword, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct French form is manchons, spelled M-A-N-C-H-O-N-S.
Definition
- 1Pluriel de manchon.
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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