manque

Questions about manque

What does manque mean?

manque means "unfulfilled or frustrated in realizing an ambition".

How many syllables are in manque?

manque has 2 syllables and divides as manq-ue under the regular spelling rules. It is not in the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary, so that comes from how the word is written rather than from a recorded pronunciation, and no stress or phonetic transcription is claimed for it.

What is another word for manque?

Close synonyms include would-be. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is manque a common word?

manque is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.

Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for manque come from Princeton University’s WordNet. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.