mânes
\mɑn\
The verdict
“mânes” is uncommon French (frequency #89,951 among 5,038 “M” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #89,951
- frequency rank, French
- 5,038
- “M” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Nom que les anciens Romains donnaient aux âmes des défunts.
Corpus desk
Index FR-manes · mânes · French
mânes · rank #89,951 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #89,951
- LEN-MID 5 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,038
- PHOTO-FINISH mygale
Nearest frequency peer: mygale (-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 « mânes »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- mouchetée
mouchetée
10,054 corpus weight
- munk
munk
10,052 corpus weight
- mygale
mygale
10,051 corpus weight
- mânes
mânes
10,050 corpus weight
- Mégare
Mégare
10,048 corpus weight
- Méjean
Méjean
10,047 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « mânes » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | mânes |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \mɑn\ |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #89,951 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « mânes » en français
Rare enough to double-check
mânes is uncommon French at frequency #89,951 among 5,038 “M” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \mɑn\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
No generated misspelling entries exist for mânes in our index, since its letter sequence doesn't invite the usual edit-distance slips. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, a sign it's visually distinctive enough not to be mixed up with another word.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, so its spelling is best read as a straightforward mapping from sound to letter. The correct French form is mânes, spelled M-Â-N-E-S.
Definition
- 1Nom que les anciens Romains donnaient aux âmes des défunts.
- 2Âme ou esprit des morts, des ancêtres.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how mânes appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Parce que le cunnilingus était l’acte sexuel le plus infamant, les Pompéiens l’utilisaient abondamment pour injurier leurs ennemis. Sur les murs de la cité vésuvienne, les mânes d’une vingtaine d’hommes doivent encore rougir de honte ou de voir leurs noms associés au terrible cunnilingus.
Les morts, du côté de Versailles furent une infime poignée dont chacun eut des milliers de victimes, immolées à ses mânes ; du côté de la Commune les victimes furent sans nom et sans nombre ; […]
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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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