manivelles
\ma.ni.vɛl\
The verdict
“manivelles” is uncommon French (frequency #85,909 among 5,038 “M” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #85,909
- frequency rank, French
- 5,038
- “M” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Pluriel de manivelle.
Corpus desk
Index FR-manivelles · manivelles · French
manivelles · rank #85,909 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #85,909
- LEN-MEGA 10 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,038
- PHOTO-FINISH malpolis
Nearest frequency peer: malpolis (-2 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 « manivelles »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- maladrerie
maladrerie
14,097 corpus weight
- malicia
malicia
14,096 corpus weight
- malpolis
malpolis
14,094 corpus weight
- manivelles
manivelles
14,092 corpus weight
- Mariotte
Mariotte
14,089 corpus weight
- Markovic
Markovic
14,088 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « manivelles » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | manivelles |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ma.ni.vɛl\ |
| Letters | 10 |
| Frequency rank | #85,909 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « manivelles » en français
Rare enough to double-check
manivelles is uncommon French at frequency #85,909 among 5,038 “M” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \ma.ni.vɛl\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Pluriel de manivelle.".
Zero misspellings are on record for manivelles in our index, since its letter pattern doesn't lend itself to common typo substitutions. This entry stands alone in our confusable dataset, since its spelling is unusual enough that it doesn't cluster with a lookalike.
This entry's etymology isn't recorded, so any spelling logic here comes from how the word's sounds map to letters, not a documented origin story. The correct French form is manivelles, spelled M-A-N-I-V-E-L-L-E-S.
Definition
- 1Pluriel de manivelle.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how manivelles appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Par la suite et indépendamment de la taille du cycliste et de son fémur, on peut monter des manivelles variant de 170 à 180 mm.
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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