manche
Portuguese, noun/ˈmɐ̃.ʃi/
manche is spelled M-A-N-C-H-E (6 letters) and appears about once in every 3 million words in written Portuguese, the 53,784th most frequent Portuguese word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Manche is a Portuguese masculine noun meaning “yoke (column-mounted control wheel of an aircraft)” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is also a first/third-person singular present subjunctive of manchar. The Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) defines it as “peça localizada a frente do piloto e do copiloto destinada ao controle da aeronave, assim como um volante de…”.
What does manche mean in English?
noun
- 1
masculineyoke (column-mounted control wheel of an aircraft)
verb
- 1
first/third-person singular present subjunctive
- 2
third-person singular imperative
Source: English Wiktionary, Portuguese section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How Portuguese dictionaries define it
noun: 1. peça localizada a frente do piloto e do copiloto destinada ao controle da aeronave, assim como um volante de um carro 2. joystick
The definition in the Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário), in Portuguese.
Source: Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário), dump of September 1, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org.
Forms of manche
- manches plural
Source: English Wiktionary and Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce manche?
- Brazil /ˈmɐ̃.ʃi/
- Portugal /ˈmɐ̃.ʃɨ/
- Portugal /ˈmɐ̃t.ʃɨ/
Sources: English Wiktionary, Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
English words that translate to manche
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is manche in Portuguese?
manche appears about once in every 3 million words in written Portuguese.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).