Manfred

name

The verdict

“Manfred” has 11 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #39,892. The variants make it a useful spelling check.

#39,892
frequency rank, French
5,038
“M” headwords
11
tracked misspellings

According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Prénom masculin.

Corpus desk

Index FR-manfred · Manfred · French

Manfred · rank #39,892 · 11 variants · 0 confusables

  • FREQ-MID #39,892
  • LEN-LONG 7 letters
  • VOW-2 2 vowels
  • CONFUS-0 No pairs
  • VAR-MID 11 variants
  • BOOK-DENSE 5,038
  • PHOTO-FINISH mammaire

Nearest frequency peer: mammaire (-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.

Pairs de rang près de l'aimant d'erreurs « Manfred »

Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin

corpus weight

What this shows « Manfred » siège parmi ces pairs FrequencyWords; la profondeur des fautes est suivie à part dans le graphique d'édition.

Source FrequencyWords open word-frequency list As of September 3, 2026
Key facts for Manfred
PropertyValue
HeadwordManfred
LanguageFrench
Part of speechProper noun
Letters7
Frequency rank#39,892
Misspellings tracked11
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « Manfred »

De gauche à droite: le peu qui porte la parole quotidienne, puis la longue queue quasi invisible.Manfredse place ici:

#1#100#1K#10K#100K
← used constantlyrarely used →

Les tics avancent en logarithme; chacun est de l'ordre de dix fois plus rare. Dans la même bande de rareté figurent « mammaire » (#39,891), « manigances » (#39,893), « maintiendra » (#39,890). Parmi 5,038 lemmes en « M », « Manfred » est au #39,892. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

A misspelling magnet

The generator records 11 spelling variants around Manfred, aproper noun. Corpus frequency is #39,892 among 5,038 “M” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Prénom masculin.".

Our generated misspelling index lists 11 likely wrong-spelling variants for Manfred, with forms such as "amnfred", "mafnred", and "manferd". Every one of these variants traces to a single-character edit -- an added or dropped letter, a swapped consonant, or a vowel swap -- the kind of slip a spell-checker is built to catch. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.

This entry carries no recorded etymology, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct French form is Manfred, spelled M-A-N-F-R-E-D.

Definition

  1. 1
    Prénom masculin.

Recorded use

Wiktionary example

These source excerpts show how Manfred appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.

  1. Donc, aujourd’hui, après le départ de ce pendard (il désignait Manfred), je songeais tout doucement à une foule de choses, et déjà j’échafaudais dans ma tête quelque chapitre bien et dûment philosophé à ajouter au livre de Pantagruel, lorsque… mais que diable sentent donc les casseroles de dame Julie ?

Common misspellings

Also misspelled as:

  • amnfred
  • mafnred
  • manferd
  • manffred
  • manfrde
  • manfredd
  • manfrred
  • mannfred
  • manrfed
  • mmanfred
  • mnafred

Misspelling Pattern Breakdown

How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of Manfred - expressed in single-character edits (insert, delete, or swap one letter). Bigger bars stand out at a glance; a one-edit slip is the hardest to catch.

amnfred2mafnred2manferd2manffred1manfrde2manfredd1manfrred1mannfred1
Edit distance from "Manfred"

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.

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "Manfred"?
"Manfred" is spelled M-A-N-F-R-E-D.
What does "Manfred" mean?
As a proper noun, "Manfred" means: Prénom masculin.
What are common misspellings of "Manfred"?
Common misspellings include "amnfred", "mafnred", "manferd", "manffred", "manfrde". The correct spelling is "Manfred".
What language does "Manfred" come from?
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Similar French words by spelling shape

Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "Manfred", not the corpus desk frequency band.

Same letter count

Frequency-ranked French headwords with 7 letters (nearest by frequency rank).

Similar misspelling depth

Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (11 here; floor ≥5).

Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org) Structured Wiktionary extract

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list