mangeoire
\mɑ̃.ʒwaʁ\
The verdict
“mangeoire” is uncommon French (frequency #64,594 among 5,038 “M” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #64,594
- frequency rank, French
- 5,038
- “M” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Auge où mangent les chevaux, les bêtes de somme, le bétail.
Corpus desk
Index FR-mangeoire · mangeoire · French
mangeoire · rank #64,594 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #64,594
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-5 5 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,038
- PHOTO-FINISH manifestez
Nearest frequency peer: manifestez (+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 « mangeoire »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- malta
malta
35,410 corpus weight
- Malthus
Malthus
35,409 corpus weight
- mangeoire
mangeoire
35,407 corpus weight
- manifestez
manifestez
35,406 corpus weight
- marla
marla
35,405 corpus weight
- maronite
maronite
35,404 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « mangeoire » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | mangeoire |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \mɑ̃.ʒwaʁ\ |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #64,594 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « mangeoire » en français
Rare enough to double-check
mangeoire is uncommon French at frequency #64,594 among 5,038 “M” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \mɑ̃.ʒwaʁ\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 3 senses are on record.
The misspelling generator found no plausible variants for mangeoire, typically a sign the spelling maps closely to how the word sounds. Our confusable-pair dataset has no match for it, since its spelling is unusual enough that it doesn't cluster with a lookalike.
No documented word history exists for this headword, so its spelling is best explained by sound-to-letter mapping rather than etymology. The correct French form is mangeoire, spelled M-A-N-G-E-O-I-R-E.
Definition
- 1Auge où mangent les chevaux, les bêtes de somme, le bétail.
- 2Auget où mangent les oiseaux de basse-cour, les oiseaux de volière ou les oiseaux en général.
- 3Restaurant, endroit où l’on sert à manger.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how mangeoire appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Mettre de l’avoine dans la mangeoire.
Une cage à serins était pendue au plafond ; les oiseaux avaient été emportés, mais la mangeoire était pleine de chenevis.
This word in other languages
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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