manivelle
Letters
9 characters
Frequency Rank
#31,593
in French word usage
Misspellings
11
tracked variants
Confusables
3
similar word pairs
manivelle is aFrenchnoun. It means: Pièce de fer ou de bois qui se replie souvent deux fois à angle droit et qui, placée à l’extrémité d’un axe ou d’un essieu, sert à faire tourner celui-ci, souvent à la main. Pronounced \ma.ni.vɛl\. Often confused with manuelle and Marielle.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | manivelle |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ma.ni.vɛl\ |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #31,593 |
| Misspellings tracked | 11 |
| Confusable pairs | 3 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
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Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for manivelle is 9 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \ma.ni.vɛl\. Corpus data places it at rank #31,593 in overall French word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it.Wiktionary records 3 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 11 documented wrong-spelling variants for manivelle, with forms such as "amnivelle", "mainvelle", and "manievlle". 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 3 confusable-pair relationships, "manuelle", "Marielle", "manille", 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 manivelle, spelled M-A-N-I-V-E-L-L-E, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Pièce de fer ou de bois qui se replie souvent deux fois à angle droit et qui, placée à l’extrémité d’un axe ou d’un essieu, sert à faire tourner celui-ci, souvent à la main.
- 2Accessoire autrefois utilisé pour démarrer un moteur d’une voiture automobile, puis, avec l'arrivée des démarreurs électriques, c'est devenu un élément de secours qui a actuellement disparu.
- 3Sur une bicyclette, pièce du pédalier sur laquelle vient se fixer la pédale.
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Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: amnivelle,mainvelle,manievlle,manivele,manivelel,manivlele,manivvelle,mannivelle,manvielle,mmanivelle,mnaivelle
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
Relative frequency of common misspelling types for manivelle
Misspelling Variants of "manivelle"
Frequency rank: #31,593 in French
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