manne
Letters
5 characters
Frequency Rank
#22,931
in French word usage
Misspellings
4
tracked variants
Confusables
20
similar word pairs
manne is aFrenchnoun. It means: Espèce de suc concret, qui coule naturellement, ou par incision, de certains végétaux, que l’on utilise comme édulcorant ou comme laxatif. Pronounced \mɑn\. Often confused with mine and mené.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | manne |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \mɑn\ |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #22,931 |
| Misspellings tracked | 4 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for manne is 5 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \mɑn\. Corpus data places it at rank #22,931 in overall French word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it.Wiktionary records 9 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 4 documented wrong-spelling variants for manne, with forms such as "amnne", "manen", and "mmanne". 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 20 confusable-pair relationships, "mine", "mené", "Mans", and more, 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 manne, spelled M-A-N-N-E, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Espèce de suc concret, qui coule naturellement, ou par incision, de certains végétaux, que l’on utilise comme édulcorant ou comme laxatif.
- 2Nourriture que Dieu fit tomber du ciel pour rassasier les enfants d’Israël dans le désert.
- 3Parole de Dieu, en style de dévotion.
- 4Manne d’encens : encens de qualité supérieure.
- 5Ressources financières ou avantages inattendus.
- 6Nourriture abondante et inespérée, et en particulier les éphémères qui abondent en fin d’été sur les rivières, dont les poissons sont très friands et qui peut servir d’appât.
- 7Manne de Pologne : Fétuque nommée glycérie flottante, dont les graines comestibles sont traditionnellement consommées en Pologne.
- 8Manne de mercure : Nom donné autrefois par les alchimistes à un sel de mercure.
- 9Manne de fer ou d'or : Couche de terre recouvrant les filons et contenant des traces d’or ou de fer.
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Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: amnne,manen,mmanne,mnane
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
Relative frequency of common misspelling types for manne
Misspelling Variants of "manne"
Frequency rank: #22,931 in French
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