manquant
\mɑ̃.kɑ̃\
The verdict
“manquant” has 12 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #12,617. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #12,617
- frequency rank, French
- 5,038
- “M” headwords
- 12
- tracked misspellings
- 19
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Qui est en moins, qui n’est pas là où il devrait se trouver.
Corpus desk
Index FR-manquant · manquant · French
manquant · rank #12,617 · 12 variants · 19 confusables
- FREQ-MID #12,617
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-HIGH 19 pairs
- VAR-MID 12 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,038
- PHOTO-FINISH mamans
Nearest frequency peer: mamans (-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.
Pairs de rang près de l'aimant d'erreurs « manquant »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- maintenue
maintenue
87,386 corpus weight
- mamans
mamans
87,385 corpus weight
- manquant
manquant
87,384 corpus weight
- marchande
marchande
87,383 corpus weight
- Michelin
Michelin
87,382 corpus weight
- minable
minable
87,381 corpus weight
What this shows « manquant » siège parmi ces pairs FrequencyWords; la profondeur des fautes est suivie à part dans le graphique d'édition.
Visual similarity to commonly confused words
How many letter changes separate each confused pair (Levenshtein distance, normalized).
Source: PlainSpell confusable corpus (Wiktionary, CC BY-SA).
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | manquant |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | \mɑ̃.kɑ̃\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #12,617 |
| Misspellings tracked | 12 |
| Confusable pairs | 19 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « manquant »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 12 spelling variants around manquant (IPA \mɑ̃.kɑ̃\), anadjective. Corpus frequency is #12,617 among 5,038 “M” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Qui est en moins, qui n’est pas là où il devrait se trouver.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 12 likely wrong-spelling variants for manquant, with forms such as "amnquant", "mannquant", and "manqaunt". Every one of these variants traces to a single-character edit -- an added or dropped letter, a swapped consonant, or a vowel swap -- the kind of slip a spell-checker is built to catch. It also participates in 19 confusable-pair relationships, "moquant", "manquent", "marquant", and more, a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.
This entry carries no recorded etymology, so its spelling is best explained by sound-to-letter mapping rather than etymology. The correct French form is manquant, spelled M-A-N-Q-U-A-N-T.
Definition
- 1Qui est en moins, qui n’est pas là où il devrait se trouver.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how manquant appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
On entend par là une molécule à laquelle on aurait tout d’abord fait une encoche à l’aide de DNAase, que l’on aurait ensuite laissé se décontorsionner, et à laquelle on aurait finalement rétabli la liaison manquante au niveau de l’encoche.
Synonyms
Antonyms
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- amnquant
- mannquant
- manqaunt
- manqquant
- manquannt
- manquantt
- manquatn
- manqunat
- manuqant
- maqnuant
- mmanquant
- mnaquant
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of manquant - measured in single-character edits (insert, delete, or substitute a letter). Larger bars are easier to catch; one-edit slips are the sneakiest.
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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Similar French words by spelling shape
Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "manquant", not the corpus desk frequency band.
Same letter count
Frequency-ranked French headwords with 8 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (12 here; floor ≥5).