manière
Letters
7 characters
Frequency Rank
#425
in French word usage
Misspellings
10
tracked variants
Confusables
20
similar word pairs
manière is aFrenchnoun. It means: Façon dont une chose se produit. Pronounced \ma.njɛʁ\. It ranks #425 in French word frequency. Often confused with mariée and marier.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | manière |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ma.njɛʁ\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #425 |
| Misspellings tracked | 10 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for manière is 7 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \ma.njɛʁ\. Corpus data places it at rank #425 in overall French word frequency, putting it firmly in the everyday core of the language.Wiktionary records 6 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 10 documented wrong-spelling variants for manière, with forms such as "amnière", "mainère", and "maniere". Each variant represents a distinct typo pattern that appears often enough in corpora to be worth flagging, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution.It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "mariée", "marier", "minier", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. For readers arriving here from a spelling check, the authoritative guidance is: the correct French form is manière, spelled M-A-N-I-È-R-E, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Façon dont une chose se produit.
- 2Façon dont on agit, dont on parle, dont on pense.
- 3Façon d’agir habituelle.
- 4Savoir-vivre
- 5Façon de composer et de peindre, etc. propre à un artiste, à une école. Style, patte.
- 6Affectation ; recherche ; exagération.
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Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: amnière,mainère,maniere,manirèe,manièer,manièrre,mannière,manèire,mmanière,mnaière
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
Relative frequency of common misspelling types for manière
Misspelling Variants of "manière"
Frequency rank: #425 in French
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Nearby French words
Other entries that begin with the letter M in our French index: