manquer de toc
\mɑ̃.ke də tɔk\
The verdict
“manquer de toc” is uncommon French (outside the top frequency list), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency French
- 14
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Manquer d’assurance, être déstabilisé.
Corpus desk
Index FR-manquer-de-toc · manquer de toc · French
manquer de toc · unranked · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-UNRANKED Unranked
- LEN-MEGA 14 letters
- VOW-5 5 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-THIN "M" thin
- PHOTO-UNK Peer pending
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.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | manquer de toc |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \mɑ̃.ke də tɔk\ |
| Letters | 14 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « manquer de toc » en français
Rare enough to double-check
manquer de toc is uncommon French outside the top frequency list, classed as averb, transcribed \mɑ̃.ke də tɔk\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for manquer de toc, since its letter sequence doesn't invite the usual edit-distance slips. No confusable counterpart is on file for this word, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
No documented word history exists for this headword, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. The correct French form is manquer de toc, spelled M-A-N-Q-U-E-R- -D-E- -T-O-C.
Definition
- 1Manquer d’assurance, être déstabilisé.
- 2(Forme négative) Être courageux, voire culotté, gonflé, ne pas manquer d’air.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how manquer de toc appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
« Je manque de toc pour ces turbins-là », dit-il, pour s’excuser, et c’est pourquoi je l’aime bien.
Faut dire que devant une artillerie comme la mienne, y’a de quoi manquer de toc.
Definitions, pronunciation, and etymology for this entry are drawn from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org structured extract (CC BY-SA). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.