manual
\ˈmænjuəl\
The verdict
“manual” is uncommon French (frequency #50,963 among 5,038 “M” headwords), classed as an adjective. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #50,963
- frequency rank, French
- 5,038
- “M” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Manuel, manuelle.
Corpus desk
Index FR-manual · manual · French
manual · rank #50,963 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #50,963
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,038
- PHOTO-FINISH marchander
Nearest frequency peer: marchander (+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 « manual »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- mangées
mangées
49,041 corpus weight
- manquées
manquées
49,040 corpus weight
- manual
manual
49,038 corpus weight
- marchander
marchander
49,037 corpus weight
- marquisat
marquisat
49,036 corpus weight
- mash
mash
49,035 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « manual » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | manual |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | \ˈmænjuəl\ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #50,963 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « manual » en français
Rare enough to double-check
manual is uncommon French at frequency #50,963 among 5,038 “M” headwords, classed as anadjective, transcribed \ˈmænjuəl\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Manuel, manuelle.".
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for manual, since its letter sequence doesn't invite the usual edit-distance slips. Our dataset records no confusable match here, since no other headword is close enough in sound or shape to pair with it.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, so its spelling is best read as a straightforward mapping from sound to letter. The correct French form is manual, spelled M-A-N-U-A-L.
Definition
- 1Manuel, manuelle.
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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