manille

Name: manille, French Word Data
Creator: Wiktionary
License: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/

\ma.nij\

/\ma.nij\/ noun

By PlainSpell · According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA) · analyzed September 3, 2026

The verdict

“manille” has 8 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #24,667. The variants make it a useful spelling check.

#24,667
frequency rank, French: 5,038
“M” headwords: 8
tracked misspellings: 14
confusable pairs

According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Jeu de cartes où le dix est la plus forte carte.

Corpus desk

Index FR-manille · manille · French

manille · rank #24,667 · 8 variants · 14 confusables

FREQ-MID #24,667
LEN-LONG 7 letters
VOW-3 3 vowels
CONFUS-MID 14 pairs
VAR-MID 8 variants
BOOK-DENSE 5,038
PHOTO-FINISH malus

Nearest frequency peer: malus (-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.

magouilles

75,337
malus

75,335
manille

75,334
marquait

75,332
Matrix

75,331
meneurs

75,330

What this shows « manille » 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).

manille vs mille

71% similar

manille vs mouillé

57% similar

manille vs manuelle

75% similar

Source: PlainSpell confusable corpus (Wiktionary, CC BY-SA).

Key facts for manille
Property	Value
Headword	manille
Language	French
Part of speech	Noun
IPA	\ma.nij\
Letters	7
Frequency rank	#24,667
Misspellings tracked	8
Confusable pairs	14
Source	Wiktionary (kaikki.org)

Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « manille »

De gauche à droite: le peu qui porte la parole quotidienne, puis la longue queue quasi invisible.manillese place ici:

#24,667

#1#100#1K#10K#100K

← used constantlyrarely used →

L'échelle est logarithmique (chaque tic ≈ 10× plus rare). Dans la même bande de rareté figurent « malus » (#24,666), « marquait » (#24,669), « magouilles » (#24,664). Parmi 5,038 lemmes en « M », « manille » est au #24,667. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

A misspelling magnet

The generator records 8 spelling variants around manille (IPA \ma.nij\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #24,667 among 5,038 “M” headwords. Wiktionary lists 2 senses, so context still picks the gloss.

Our generated misspelling index lists 8 likely wrong-spelling variants for manille, with forms such as "amnille", "mainlle", and "manile". Each of these forms differs from the correct spelling by one small edit: a doubled letter, a dropped silent letter, or a substituted vowel. It also participates in 14 confusable-pair relationships, "mille", "mouillé", "manuelle", and more, a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.

This entry carries no recorded etymology, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct French form is manille, spelled M-A-N-I-L-L-E.

Definition

1
Jeu de cartes où le dix est la plus forte carte.
2
Au jeu de manille, nom du 10, qui est la plus forte carte.

Recorded use

Wiktionary examples

These source excerpts show how manille appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.

Que veux-tu, c'est plus fort que moi ; quand je joue la manille, je ne me connais plus.
Un soir, après le dîner, une fois la vaisselle lavée et rangée ainsi que les bidons et autres ustensiles de table, Niang s'en va faire sa manille avec les soldats européens de la section hors rang.

Common misspellings

Also misspelled as:

amnille
mainlle
manile
manilel
manlile
mannille
mmanille
mnaille

Misspelling Pattern Breakdown

How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of manille - 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.

Edit distance from "manille"

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.

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "manille"?

"manille" is spelled M-A-N-I-L-L-E. The IPA pronunciation is \ma.nij\.

What does "manille" mean?

As a noun, "manille" means: Jeu de cartes où le dix est la plus forte carte.

What words are commonly confused with "manille"?

"manille" is commonly confused with "mille", "mouillé", "manuelle". These words look or sound similar but have different meanings. PlainSpell provides detailed comparisons for each pair.

How do you pronounce "manille"?

The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "manille" is \ma.nij\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.

What language does "manille" come from?

"manille" is a French word. PlainSpell's reference spans five languages -- English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, and German -- with definitions, pronunciations, and spelling data for each.

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Similar French words by spelling shape

Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "manille", not the corpus desk frequency band.

Same letter count

Frequency-ranked French headwords with 7 letters (nearest by frequency rank).

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Similar misspelling depth

Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (8 here; floor ≥5).

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