manteau
Letters
7 characters
Frequency Rank
#5,476
in French word usage
Misspellings
9
tracked variants
Confusables
10
similar word pairs
manteau is aFrenchnoun. It means: Vêtement de dessus qui prend depuis les épaules jusqu’au-dessous des genoux et sert à se garantir de la pluie et du froid. Pronounced \mɑ̃.to\. It ranks #5,476 in French word frequency. Often confused with mantes and mantra.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | manteau |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \mɑ̃.to\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #5,476 |
| Misspellings tracked | 9 |
| Confusable pairs | 10 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for manteau is 7 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \mɑ̃.to\. Corpus data places it at rank #5,476 in overall French word frequency, indicating it appears regularly in written and spoken text.Wiktionary records 10 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 9 documented wrong-spelling variants for manteau, with forms such as "amnteau", "manetau", and "mannteau". 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 10 confusable-pair relationships, "mantes", "mantra", "marteau", 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 manteau, spelled M-A-N-T-E-A-U, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Vêtement de dessus qui prend depuis les épaules jusqu’au-dessous des genoux et sert à se garantir de la pluie et du froid.
- 2Vêtement de femme à manches qui se porte sur une robe.
- 3Couverture placée sur le dos d’un cheval pour le protéger du froid et de la pluie.
- 4Partie de la cheminée qui fait saillie au-dessus de l’âtre.
- 5Partie d’un artéfact qui recouvre ou enveloppe une autre partie.
- 6Ce qui recouvre quelque chose.
- 7Couche géologique terrestre située entre l’écorce et le noyau, d’une épaisseur moyenne de 3000 kilomètres.
- 8Fourrure herminée sur laquelle est posé l’écu.
- 9Dos quand la couleur du plumage d’un oiseau ou du pelage d’un animal diffère du celle du reste du corps. → voir mantelure
- 10Enveloppe de peau des mollusques qui abrite les autres organes et sécrète la coquille chez les espèces qui en sont pourvues.
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Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: amnteau,manetau,mannteau,mantaeu,manteua,mantteau,matneau,mmanteau,mnateau
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
Relative frequency of common misspelling types for manteau
Misspelling Variants of "manteau"
Frequency rank: #5,476 in French
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