mangroves
\mɑ̃.ɡʁɔv\
The verdict
“mangroves” is uncommon French (frequency #65,293 among 5,038 “M” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #65,293
- frequency rank, French
- 5,038
- “M” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Pluriel de mangrove.
Corpus desk
Index FR-mangroves · mangroves · French
mangroves · rank #65,293 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #65,293
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,038
- PHOTO-FINISH mandi
Nearest frequency peer: mandi (-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 « mangroves »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- macroéconom…
macroéconomie
34,711 corpus weight
- malotru
malotru
34,710 corpus weight
- mandi
mandi
34,709 corpus weight
- mangroves
mangroves
34,708 corpus weight
- Marcelino
Marcelino
34,707 corpus weight
- marmiton
marmiton
34,706 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « mangroves » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | mangroves |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \mɑ̃.ɡʁɔv\ |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #65,293 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « mangroves » en français
Rare enough to double-check
mangroves is uncommon French at frequency #65,293 among 5,038 “M” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \mɑ̃.ɡʁɔv\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Pluriel de mangrove.".
We couldn't generate a plausible misspelling set for mangroves, since its letter sequence doesn't invite the usual edit-distance slips. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, suggesting its spelling stands apart enough that readers rarely confuse it with something else.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, so its spelling is best explained by sound-to-letter mapping rather than etymology. The correct French form is mangroves, spelled M-A-N-G-R-O-V-E-S.
Definition
- 1Pluriel de mangrove.
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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