Which to use
“manquant” and “manquants” are a confusable French pair: similar on the page, but distinct in meaning, check the gloss before you choose.
- #12,617
- “manquant” frequency rank
- #28,245
- “manquants” frequency rank
- 40862
- confusion score
Side-by-Side Comparison
| Feature | manquant | manquants |
|---|---|---|
| Definition | Qui est en moins, qui n’est pas là où il devrait se trouver. | Masculin pluriel de manquant. |
Same sound, different letters: manquant vs manquants
Muted letters are shared; highlighted letters are the only spelling cue when pronunciation matches. Shared run: 8 letters.
Homophone desk: manquant vs manquants
This is the hard kind. manquant and manquants are pronounced identically (\mɑ̃.kɑ̃\) and both work as anadjective. Neither the ear nor the grammar will rescue you; only the meaning does, so the glosses below are the whole decision. They differ by 1 extra letter(s) - “manquant” sits inside “manquants”. Our composite confusion score for this pair is 40862, derived from the frequency rank of both members and their visual similarity.
manquant is recorded at frequency rank #12,617, classified as anadj, pronounced \mɑ̃.kɑ̃\. manquants is at rank #28,245, tagged as anadj, pronounced \mɑ̃.kɑ̃\.
Glosses for this pair are partially populated in our dataset, but the full side-by-side definitions above should still guide you to the right choice.
With a confusion score of 40862, this pair ranks #237,352 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs - roughly mid-pack for confusability.
Orthographic DNA of manquant vs manquants
Shared letters: amnqtu. Private to "manquant": -. Private to "manquants": s.
"manquant" · 8 letters · shape CVCCVVCC · "manquants" · 9 letters · shape CVCCVVCCC
Known mistypes of this pair
Frequently Asked Questions
Do "manquant" and "manquants" mean the same thing in a sentence?
Frequency check: "manquant" vs "manquants" - which ranks higher?
Useful next steps
You've separated the homophone pair "manquant" / "manquants". Follow the links when you need the full entry or a neighbour that trips the same ear.
- Full dictionary entry for "manquant" with definition, IPA, and generated misspellings. Word entry
- Full dictionary entry for "manquants" - compare definitions side by side with the headword page. Word entry
- This pair ranks #237,352 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs in this corpus vintage. Corpus statistics
- "manquant" and "manquants" also get mixed up with nearby pairs, the highest-scored neighbour is "manquants vs masquant". Nearby pair
- Recorded mistypes exist for at least one side of this pair, useful when a spell-checker or OCR lands on the wrong form. See mistypes
Confusion rank #237,352 of 440,172 scored French pairs, corpus vintage 2026-09-03, not spelling advice.