Manicouagan
\ma.ni.kwa.ɡɑ̃\
The verdict
“Manicouagan” is uncommon French (frequency #72,524 among 5,038 “M” headwords), classed as a proper noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #72,524
- frequency rank, French
- 5,038
- “M” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Municipalité régionale de comté de la province de Québec, dans la région administrative de Côte-Nord.
Corpus desk
Index FR-manicouagan · Manicouagan · French
Manicouagan · rank #72,524 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #72,524
- LEN-MEGA 11 letters
- VOW-6 6 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,038
- PHOTO-FINISH maniables
Nearest frequency peer: maniables (-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 « Manicouagan »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- mandarines
mandarines
27,480 corpus weight
- Mandeville
Mandeville
27,479 corpus weight
- maniables
maniables
27,478 corpus weight
- Manicouagan
Manicouagan
27,477 corpus weight
- manifesto
manifesto
27,476 corpus weight
- manomètre
manomètre
27,474 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « Manicouagan » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Manicouagan |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| IPA | \ma.ni.kwa.ɡɑ̃\ |
| Letters | 11 |
| Frequency rank | #72,524 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « Manicouagan » en français
Rare enough to double-check
Manicouagan is uncommon French at frequency #72,524 among 5,038 “M” headwords, classed as aproper noun, transcribed \ma.ni.kwa.ɡɑ̃\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Municipalité régionale de comté de la province de Québec, dans la région administrative de Côte-Nord.".
No generated misspelling entries exist for Manicouagan in our index, which points to an orthography that plays by predictable French rules. We don't track a confusable pairing for this entry, which usually means its spelling is distinct enough that readers don't reach for a similar-looking word instead.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, so any spelling logic here comes from how the word's sounds map to letters, not a documented origin story. The correct French form is Manicouagan, spelled M-A-N-I-C-O-U-A-G-A-N.
Definition
- 1Municipalité régionale de comté de la province de Québec, dans la région administrative de Côte-Nord.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how Manicouagan appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Les autorités de la Côte-Nord continuent de suivre de près la situation sanitaire dans la Manicouagan, encore touchée par plusieurs éclosions de COVID-19.
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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