manifesto
\ˌmæn.ɪˈfɛs.təʊ\
The verdict
“manifesto” is uncommon French (frequency #72,525 among 5,038 “M” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #72,525
- frequency rank, French
- 5,038
- “M” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Manifeste d’un parti politique.
Corpus desk
Index FR-manifesto · manifesto · French
manifesto · rank #72,525 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #72,525
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,038
- PHOTO-FINISH Manicouagan
Nearest frequency peer: Manicouagan (-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 « manifesto »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- 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
- manquerons
manquerons
27,473 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « manifesto » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | manifesto |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ˌmæn.ɪˈfɛs.təʊ\ |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #72,525 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « manifesto » en français
Rare enough to double-check
manifesto is uncommon French at frequency #72,525 among 5,038 “M” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \ˌmæn.ɪˈfɛs.təʊ\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Manifeste d’un parti politique.".
We couldn't generate a plausible misspelling set for manifesto, since its letter sequence doesn't invite the usual edit-distance slips. This entry stands alone in our confusable dataset, which usually means its spelling is distinct enough that readers don't reach for a similar-looking word instead.
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. The correct French form is manifesto, spelled M-A-N-I-F-E-S-T-O.
Definition
- 1Manifeste d’un parti politique.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how manifesto appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
The political parties published their manifestos a month before the election.
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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