manutentionnaire
\ma.ny.tɑ̃.sjɔ.nɛʁ\
The verdict
“manutentionnaire” is uncommon French (frequency #75,882 among 5,038 “M” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #75,882
- frequency rank, French
- 5,038
- “M” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Personne qui s’occupe de manutention, qui charge et décharge les marchandises.
Corpus desk
Index FR-manutentionnaire · manutentionnaire · French
manutentionnaire · rank #75,882 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #75,882
- LEN-MEGA 16 letters
- VOW-8 8 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,038
- PHOTO-FINISH mandrier
Nearest frequency peer: mandrier (-2 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 « manutentionnaire »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- mandibulaire
mandibulaire
24,123 corpus weight
- mandingue
mandingue
24,122 corpus weight
- mandrier
mandrier
24,121 corpus weight
- manutention…
manutentionnaire
24,119 corpus weight
- Margie
Margie
24,116 corpus weight
- maristes
maristes
24,115 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « manutentionnaire » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | manutentionnaire |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ma.ny.tɑ̃.sjɔ.nɛʁ\ |
| Letters | 16 |
| Frequency rank | #75,882 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « manutentionnaire » en français
Rare enough to double-check
manutentionnaire is uncommon French at frequency #75,882 among 5,038 “M” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \ma.ny.tɑ̃.sjɔ.nɛʁ\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
The misspelling generator found no plausible variants for manutentionnaire, since its letter sequence doesn't invite the usual edit-distance slips. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct French form is manutentionnaire, spelled M-A-N-U-T-E-N-T-I-O-N-N-A-I-R-E.
Definition
- 1Personne qui s’occupe de manutention, qui charge et décharge les marchandises.
- 2Celui qui manipule.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how manutentionnaire appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Le 6 avril 2009, alors qu’il est à la manœuvre avec sa grue, un manutentionnaire du port sec de Rouiba, à trente kilomètres à l’est d'Alger, est intrigué par le poids très important de trois conteneurs frigorifiques censés être vides.
Il [Napoléon 1ᵉʳ] conservait des préjugés souvent injustes contre les manutentionnaires de deniers publics, contre les entrepreneurs des services, et en même temps quelque goût pour les expédients qui retardent les payements.
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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