manipulable
\ma.ni.py.labl\
The verdict
“manipulable” is uncommon French (frequency #68,446 among 5,038 “M” headwords), classed as an adjective. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #68,446
- frequency rank, French
- 5,038
- “M” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Qui peut être manipulé, manié.
Corpus desk
Index FR-manipulable · manipulable · French
manipulable · rank #68,446 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #68,446
- LEN-MEGA 11 letters
- VOW-5 5 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,038
- PHOTO-FINISH managérial
Nearest frequency peer: managérial (-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 « manipulable »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- malgrés
malgrés
31,558 corpus weight
- malouin
malouin
31,557 corpus weight
- managérial
managérial
31,556 corpus weight
- manipulable
manipulable
31,555 corpus weight
- marignan
marignan
31,554 corpus weight
- marquèrent
marquèrent
31,552 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « manipulable » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | manipulable |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | \ma.ni.py.labl\ |
| Letters | 11 |
| Frequency rank | #68,446 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « manipulable » en français
Rare enough to double-check
manipulable is uncommon French at frequency #68,446 among 5,038 “M” headwords, classed as anadjective, transcribed \ma.ni.py.labl\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for manipulable, typically a sign the spelling maps closely to how the word sounds. Our confusable-pair dataset has no match for it, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, so its spelling pattern is best understood through pronunciation rather than a traceable origin. The correct French form is manipulable, spelled M-A-N-I-P-U-L-A-B-L-E.
Definition
- 1Qui peut être manipulé, manié.
- 2Qui peut être influencé et dirigé, instrumentalisé.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how manipulable appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Les informaticiens joueront un grand rôle dans la croyance selon laquelle le langage humain est réductible à de l'information, manipulable à merci pourvu qu'on dispose de la clef.
Synonyms
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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