mangea
\mɑ̃.ʒa\
The verdict
“mangea” is uncommon French (frequency #70,814 among 5,038 “M” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #70,814
- frequency rank, French
- 5,038
- “M” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Troisième personne du singulier du passé simple de manger.
Corpus desk
Index FR-mangea · mangea · French
mangea · rank #70,814 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #70,814
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,038
- PHOTO-FINISH mangeras
Nearest frequency peer: mangeras (+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 « mangea »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- majestés
majestés
29,191 corpus weight
- maltraitées
maltraitées
29,190 corpus weight
- mangea
mangea
29,187 corpus weight
- mangeras
mangeras
29,186 corpus weight
- mangeuse
mangeuse
29,185 corpus weight
- mankind
mankind
29,184 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « mangea » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | mangea |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \mɑ̃.ʒa\ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #70,814 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « mangea » en français
Rare enough to double-check
mangea is uncommon French at frequency #70,814 among 5,038 “M” headwords, classed as averb, transcribed \mɑ̃.ʒa\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Troisième personne du singulier du passé simple de manger.".
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for mangea, which points to an orthography that plays by predictable French rules. This headword has no recorded confusable partner, since no other headword is close enough in sound or shape to pair with it.
No borrowing history is documented for this entry, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct French form is mangea, spelled M-A-N-G-E-A.
Definition
- 1Troisième personne du singulier du passé simple de manger.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how mangea appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Aussi fut-ce au milieu de grands cris que le capitaine, accompagné de son équipe, présenta la gerbe, la croix d'épis tressés, à Jacqueline, qu’on traitait en maîtresse de maison ; et la « ripane », le repas d’adieu traditionnel, fut très gai : on mangea trois gigots et cinq lapins, on trinqua si tard, que tous se couchèrent en ribote.
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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