manichéen
\ma.ni.ke.ɛ̃\
The verdict
“manichéen” is uncommon French (frequency #59,424 among 5,038 “M” headwords), classed as an adjective. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #59,424
- frequency rank, French
- 5,038
- “M” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Relatif au manichéisme.
Corpus desk
Index FR-manicheen · manichéen · French
manichéen · rank #59,424 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #59,424
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,038
- PHOTO-FINISH mande
Nearest frequency peer: mande (-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 « manichéen »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- malmenés
malmenés
40,580 corpus weight
- mandarins
mandarins
40,579 corpus weight
- mande
mande
40,578 corpus weight
- manichéen
manichéen
40,577 corpus weight
- manichéenne
manichéenne
40,576 corpus weight
- maraîchage
maraîchage
40,575 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « manichéen » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | manichéen |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | \ma.ni.ke.ɛ̃\ |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #59,424 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « manichéen » en français
Rare enough to double-check
manichéen is uncommon French at frequency #59,424 among 5,038 “M” headwords, classed as anadjective, transcribed \ma.ni.ke.ɛ̃\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 4 senses are on record.
No misspelling variants are generated for manichéen in our index, suggesting the orthography follows predictable French patterns. Our dataset records no confusable match here, 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 manichéen, spelled M-A-N-I-C-H-É-E-N.
Definition
- 1Relatif au manichéisme.
- 2Relatif aux dualistes bogomiles, dont les cathares.
- 3Qui analyse tout situation en séparant sans nuance les idées et les protagonistes entre un camp du Bien et un camp du Mal.
- 4Relatif au manichéen (alphabet consonantique).
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how manichéen appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Le dogme fondamental de toutes les sectes manichéennes, c’est la nature divine ou angélique de l’âme, prisonnière des formes créées et de la nuit de la matière.
La renaissance d’un certain patriotisme de clocher se traduisit par la prolifération des sectes manichéennes et millénaristes.
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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Frequency-ranked French headwords with 9 letters (nearest by frequency rank).