mangeaille
\mɑ̃.ʒɑj\
The verdict
“mangeaille” is uncommon French (outside the top frequency list), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency French
- 10
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Ce qu’on donne à manger à quelques animaux domestiques, à des oiseaux.
Corpus desk
Index FR-mangeaille · mangeaille · French
mangeaille · unranked · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-UNRANKED Unranked
- LEN-MEGA 10 letters
- VOW-5 5 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-THIN "M" thin
- PHOTO-UNK Peer pending
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.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | mangeaille |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \mɑ̃.ʒɑj\ |
| Letters | 10 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
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Rare enough to double-check
mangeaille is uncommon French outside the top frequency list, classed as anoun, transcribed \mɑ̃.ʒɑj\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
The misspelling generator found no plausible variants for mangeaille, a sign its spelling follows regular French conventions. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword 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 mangeaille, spelled M-A-N-G-E-A-I-L-L-E.
Definition
- 1Ce qu’on donne à manger à quelques animaux domestiques, à des oiseaux.
- 2Grande quantité de nourriture destinée aux êtres humains, presque toujours médiocre.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how mangeaille appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
— Pourriez-vous me dire comment elle est devenue si rondelette. — Pardi, en se crevant de mangeaille comme vous et moi.
Enfin le Roi rompit avec madame de Verneuil ; elle se mit à faire une vie de Sardanapale ou de Vitellius : elle ne songeoit qu’à la mangeaille, qu’à des ragoûts, et vouloit même avoir son pot dans sa chambre ; elle devint si grasse qu’elle en devint monstrueuse ; mais elle avoit toujours bien de l’esprit.
Definitions, pronunciation, and etymology for this entry are drawn from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org structured extract (CC BY-SA). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.