manticore
\mɑ̃.ti.kɔʁ\
The verdict
“manticore” is uncommon French (frequency #76,784 among 5,038 “M” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #76,784
- frequency rank, French
- 5,038
- “M” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Créature légendaire décrite des auteurs grecs puis latins, et abondamment repris dans les bestiaires médiévaux.
Corpus desk
Index FR-manticore · manticore · French
manticore · rank #76,784 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #76,784
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,038
- PHOTO-FINISH Maoris
Nearest frequency peer: Maoris (+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 « manticore »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- manin
manin
23,221 corpus weight
- maniérisme
maniérisme
23,220 corpus weight
- manticore
manticore
23,217 corpus weight
- Maoris
Maoris
23,216 corpus weight
- Marianna
Marianna
23,215 corpus weight
- maréchale
maréchale
23,214 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « manticore » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | manticore |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \mɑ̃.ti.kɔʁ\ |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #76,784 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « manticore » en français
Rare enough to double-check
manticore is uncommon French at frequency #76,784 among 5,038 “M” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \mɑ̃.ti.kɔʁ\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
Zero misspellings are on record for manticore in our index, since its letter sequence doesn't invite the usual edit-distance slips. No confusable counterpart is on file for this word, since no other headword is close enough in sound or shape to pair with it.
Our source data has no etymology on file for this entry, so its spelling is easiest explained by how it's pronounced rather than where it came from. The correct French form is manticore, spelled M-A-N-T-I-C-O-R-E.
Definition
- 1Créature légendaire décrite des auteurs grecs puis latins, et abondamment repris dans les bestiaires médiévaux.
- 2Genre de coléoptères, aux mandibules longues et dentées, carnassiers et vivant dans l’Afrique.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how manticore appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
J’y vids des Manticores, bêtes bien étranges, elles ont le corps comme un Lion, le poil rouge, la face & les oreilles comme un homme, trois rangs de leurs dents, entrant les unes dedans les autres, comme ſi vous entrelaſſiez les doigts des mains les uns dedans les autres : en la queuë elles ont un aiguilion, duquel elles poignent, comment font les Scorpio…
De-même auſſi la Manticore, qui eſt une bête feroce, & le Moraxus, qui eſt un poiſſon, ſont armés d’un triple rang de dents.
This word in other languages
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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