maintain
[meɪnˈteɪn]
The verdict
“maintain” is uncommon German (outside the top frequency list), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency German
- 8
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - erhalten, aufrechterhalten
Corpus desk
Index DE-maintain · maintain · German
maintain · unranked · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-UNRANKED Unranked
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-THIN "M" thin
- PHOTO-UNK Peer pending
Desk codes from Wiktionary headword shape, FrequencyWords rank tier, confusable-pair count, generated misspelling depth, letter-cohort book size, and photo-finish peer. Not a difficulty grade.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | maintain |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | [meɪnˈteɪn] |
| Letters | 8 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Langschwanz-Rang von „maintain“ im Deutschen
Rare enough to double-check
maintain is uncommon German outside the top frequency list, classed as averb, transcribed [meɪnˈteɪn]. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 3 senses are on record.
maintain doesn't appear in our generated misspelling index, since its letter pattern doesn't lend itself to common typo substitutions. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, since its spelling is unusual enough that it doesn't cluster with a lookalike.
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. The correct German form is maintain, spelled M-A-I-N-T-A-I-N.
Definition
- 1erhalten, aufrechterhalten
- 2fortsetzen, nähren, versorgen
- 3behaupten, verfechten
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how maintain appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
"I maintained a grave silence for some minutes."
"…; and that in his last moments he had required a promise of Mrs. Reed that she would rear and maintain me as one of her own children."
Definitions, pronunciation, and etymology for this entry are drawn from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org structured extract (CC BY-SA). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.