menacer
Letters
7 characters
Frequency Rank
#10,357
in French word usage
Misspellings
10
tracked variants
Confusables
13
similar word pairs
menacer is aFrenchverb. It means: Se proposer intempestivement de faire. Pronounced \mə.na.se\. Often confused with mener and ménage.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | menacer |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \mə.na.se\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #10,357 |
| Misspellings tracked | 10 |
| Confusable pairs | 13 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for menacer is 7 letters long, classified as averb, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \mə.na.se\. Corpus data places it at rank #10,357 in overall French word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it.Wiktionary records 21 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 10 documented wrong-spelling variants for menacer, with forms such as "emnacer", "meancer", and "menaccer". 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 13 confusable-pair relationships, "mener", "ménage", "Mercer", 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 menacer, spelled M-E-N-A-C-E-R, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Se proposer intempestivement de faire.
- 2Risquer de se produire. → voir menacer ruine
- 3Éclater prochainement (pour un phénomène météorologique).
- 4Déclarer la guerre dans un bref délai.
- 5Mettre en garde.
- 6Tenir des propos menaçants.
- 7Faire pression pour obtenir quelque chose.
- 8Essayer d’impressionner.
- 9Risquer quelque chose.
- 10Être perçu comme menaçant, comme susceptible de faire ou vouloir du mal.
- 11Être sous le coup de quelque chose
- 12Risquer de détruire ou supprimer quelque chose.
- 13Mettre quelque chose en péril.
- 14Risquer quelque chose.
- 15Craindre de subir quelque chose.
- 16Ressentir un danger.
- 17Précise l’objet de la menace, le risque encouru. → voir menacer de mort
- 18Précise par quel moyen la menace sera exécutée.
- 19Précise le vecteur de la menace.
- 20Précise la condition d’exécution de la menace.
- 21Sembler pouvoir atteindre, en parlant des choses élevées. → voir menacer le ciel
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: emnacer,meancer,menaccer,menacerr,menacre,menaecr,mencaer,mennacer,mmenacer,mneacer
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
Relative frequency of common misspelling types for menacer
Misspelling Variants of "menacer"
Frequency rank: #10,357 in French
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Nearby French words
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