Manque

Definition: Manque

Manque

Adjective

1. Unfilled or frustrated in realizing an ambition.

Date "manque" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1790. (references)

Synonym: Manque

Synonym: would-be(a) (adj). (additional references)

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Crosswords: Manque

Specialty definitions using "manque": Coup Manque ♦ Jacques. (references)

Non-English Usage: "Manque" is also a word in the following languages with English translations in parentheses.

French (absence, be missing, dearth, default, deficiency, lack, Miss, paucity, scarcity, shortage, shortcoming, void, want), Spanish (lacker, lacquer).

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Modern Usage: Manque

Domain

Usage

Movie/TV Titles

Max manque un riche mariage (1910)

Un seul être vous manque (1984)

Le Manque (1978)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Commercial Usage: Manque

Domain	Title
Books	Admirables folles, il ne vous manque que la paresse!: dessins d'Hippolyte Romain (reference) Joyce, The Artist Manque, and Indeterminacy (reference) Le Rendez-Vous Manque Des Releves Des Annees Trente (reference) Manque et plénitude : éléments pour une mémoire de l'essentiel (reference) Oeuvres Completes Premier Prix de Piano / l'homme qui manque le Coche / le Bergere de la Rue Monthabar Vol. 7 (reference) (more book examples)
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Usage Frequency: Manque

"Manque" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Manque" is used about 3 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted)

Parts of Speech	Percent	Usage per 100 Million Words	Rank in English
Noun (singular)	100%	3	202,518

Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.

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Expression: Manque

Hypenated Usage
	Ending with "manque": idol-manque.
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Frequency of Internet Keywords: Manque

The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com.

Expression	Frequency per Day
manque ntldr	3
aircraft.com manque	3
caisse de de depot fonds manque	3
manque tu	2
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Modern Translations: Manque

Language		Translations for "manque"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.
German		verkannt (misunderstood, unacknowledged, unrecognized), gescheitert. (various references)

Pig Latin		anquemay

Russian		не удостоившийся похвалы. (various references)

Turkish		hevesli ama başarısız, beceriksiz (awkward, bungler, bungling, clumsy, Duff, duffer, feckless, flat-footed, fumbling, gauche, gawky, ham-fisted, ham-handed, heavy-handed, helpless, impractical, inapt, incompetent, ineffective, ineffectual, inefficacious, inept, inexpert, left handed, lubber, maladroit, ne'er do well, never-do-well, oaf, oafish, resourceless, rude, shiftless, slouch, unaccomplished, unhandy, unskilful, untalented). (various references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Anagrams: Manque

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams
	Words within the letters "a-e-m-n-q-u"
	-1 letter: quean.
	-2 letters: amen, mane, maun, mean, menu, name, nema, neum.
	-3 letters: amu, ane, eau, emu, mae, man, men, mun, nae, nam, qua.
	-4 letters: ae, am, an, em, en, ma, me, mu, na, ne, nu, um, un.
	Words containing the letters "a-e-m-n-q-u"
	+2 letters: ramequin.
	+3 letters: mannequin, moonquake, quarrymen, ramequins.
	+4 letters: aquamarine, equanimity, lambrequin, mannequins, moonquakes.
	+5 letters: acquirement, aquamarines, lambrequins, quadrennium.
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