manpower
\ˈmæn.ˌpaʊ.ə(ɹ)\
The verdict
“manpower” is uncommon French (frequency #63,904 among 5,038 “M” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #63,904
- frequency rank, French
- 5,038
- “M” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Main-d’œuvre.
Corpus desk
Index FR-manpower · manpower · French
manpower · rank #63,904 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #63,904
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,038
- PHOTO-FINISH manifestera
Nearest frequency peer: manifestera (-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 « manpower »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- mandibules
mandibules
36,100 corpus weight
- maniaco
maniaco
36,099 corpus weight
- manifestera
manifestera
36,098 corpus weight
- manpower
manpower
36,097 corpus weight
- manus
manus
36,096 corpus weight
- maraude
maraude
36,095 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « manpower » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | manpower |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ˈmæn.ˌpaʊ.ə(ɹ)\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #63,904 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « manpower » en français
Rare enough to double-check
manpower is uncommon French at frequency #63,904 among 5,038 “M” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \ˈmæn.ˌpaʊ.ə(ɹ)\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Main-d’œuvre.".
We couldn't generate a plausible misspelling set for manpower, since its letter sequence doesn't invite the usual edit-distance slips. No confusable counterpart is on file for this word, a sign it's visually distinctive enough not to be mixed up with another word.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct French form is manpower, spelled M-A-N-P-O-W-E-R.
Definition
- 1Main-d’œuvre.
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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