manie
\ma.ni\
The verdict
“manie” has 5 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #14,311. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #14,311
- frequency rank, French
- 5,038
- “M” headwords
- 5
- tracked misspellings
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - État d’exaltation extrême de l’humeur avec agitation psychomotrice, associé à des symptômes physiques comme la tachycardie, l’hyperthermie et des modifications de l’appétit.
Corpus desk
Index FR-manie · manie · French
manie · rank #14,311 · 5 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-MID #14,311
- LEN-MID 5 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-MID 5 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,038
- PHOTO-FINISH maladroit
Nearest frequency peer: maladroit (-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.
Pairs de rang près de l'aimant d'erreurs « manie »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- légaux
légaux
85,693 corpus weight
- maillots
maillots
85,692 corpus weight
- maladroit
maladroit
85,691 corpus weight
- manie
manie
85,690 corpus weight
- manquez
manquez
85,689 corpus weight
- Marvin
Marvin
85,688 corpus weight
What this shows « manie » siège parmi ces pairs FrequencyWords; la profondeur des fautes est suivie à part dans le graphique d'édition.
Visual similarity to commonly confused words
How many letter changes separate each confused pair (Levenshtein distance, normalized).
Source: PlainSpell confusable corpus (Wiktionary, CC BY-SA).
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | manie |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ma.ni\ |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #14,311 |
| Misspellings tracked | 5 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « manie »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 5 spelling variants around manie (IPA \ma.ni\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #14,311 among 5,038 “M” headwords. Wiktionary lists 3 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 5 likely wrong-spelling variants for manie, with forms such as "amnie", "manei", and "mannie". Each variant is a distinct typo pattern an edit-distance generator flags, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution. It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "mie", "mari", "mini", and more, since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
This entry carries no recorded etymology, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct French form is manie, spelled M-A-N-I-E.
Definition
- 1État d’exaltation extrême de l’humeur avec agitation psychomotrice, associé à des symptômes physiques comme la tachycardie, l’hyperthermie et des modifications de l’appétit.
- 2Habitude bizarre, contraire à la raison.
- 3Goût porté jusqu’à l’excès.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how manie appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Il est atteint de manie.
Sa manie est de se croire réduit à la misère.
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- amnie
- manei
- mannie
- mmanie
- mnaie
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of manie - expressed in single-character edits (insert, delete, or swap one letter). Bigger bars stand out at a glance; a one-edit slip is the hardest to catch.
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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Same letter count
Frequency-ranked French headwords with 5 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
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