manouche
\ma.nuʃ\
The verdict
“manouche” is uncommon French (frequency #51,595 among 5,038 “M” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #51,595
- frequency rank, French
- 5,038
- “M” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Membre du peuple des Manouches.
Corpus desk
Index FR-manouche · manouche · French
manouche · rank #51,595 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #51,595
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,038
- PHOTO-FINISH malmenée
Nearest frequency peer: malmenée (-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 « manouche »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- Magdeleine
Magdeleine
48,410 corpus weight
- magnétophone
magnétophone
48,409 corpus weight
- malfaisant
malfaisant
48,408 corpus weight
- malmenée
malmenée
48,407 corpus weight
- manouche
manouche
48,406 corpus weight
- marionnetti…
marionnettiste
48,404 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « manouche » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | manouche |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ma.nuʃ\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #51,595 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « manouche » en français
Rare enough to double-check
manouche is uncommon French at frequency #51,595 among 5,038 “M” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \ma.nuʃ\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Membre du peuple des Manouches.".
No generated misspelling entries exist for manouche in our index, since its letter pattern doesn't lend itself to common typo substitutions. We don't track a confusable pairing for this entry, which usually means its spelling is distinct enough that readers don't reach for a similar-looking word instead.
No documented word history exists for this headword, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct French form is manouche, spelled M-A-N-O-U-C-H-E.
Definition
- 1Membre du peuple des Manouches.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how manouche appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Encore une caravane de ces fichus manouches!
Les manouches roulent vitres ouvertes, d'un malheur l'autre. Entre les deux il y a la route et le ruban de cette musique si joyeuse qu'elle rend Dieu innocent de ses fautes.
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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