maintained
/meɪnˈteɪnd/
"maintained" is a 10-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“maintained” has 14 generated spelling variants in the English index at frequency #3,768. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #3,768
- frequency rank, English
- 4,057
- “M” headwords
- 14
- tracked misspellings
- 1
- confusable pair
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - showing maintenance or attention
Corpus desk
Index EN-maintained · maintained · English
maintained · rank #3,768 · 14 variants · 1 confusable
- FREQ-COMMON #3,768
- LEN-MEGA 10 letters
- VOW-5 5 vowels
- CONFUS-LOW 1 pairs
- VAR-HIGH 14 variants
- BOOK-MID 4,057
- PHOTO-FINISH lists
Nearest frequency peer: lists (-1 rank slots)
Read with this headword: Spelling guide for this pattern
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.
Frequency neighbourhood for “maintained”
Lower corpus rank = more everyday usage (inverted bar length for readability)
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96,236 corpus weight
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96,235 corpus weight
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96,234 corpus weight
- maintained
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96,233 corpus weight
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96,232 corpus weight
- MO
MO
96,231 corpus weight
What this shows Bars show where “maintained” sits against the nearest ranked English headwords in the FrequencyWords band, not a reprint of letter-browse containment.
Visual similarity to commonly confused words
How many letter changes separate each confused pair (Levenshtein distance, normalized).
Source: PlainSpell confusable corpus (Wiktionary, CC BY-SA).
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | maintained |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | /meɪnˈteɪnd/ |
| Letters | 10 |
| Frequency rank | #3,768 |
| Misspellings tracked | 14 |
| Confusable pairs | 1 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “maintained” sits in English frequency
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 14 spelling variants around maintained (IPA /meɪnˈteɪnd/), anadjective. Corpus frequency is #3,768 among 4,057 “M” headwords. Dominant gloss: "showing maintenance or attention".
Our generated misspelling index lists 14 likely wrong-spelling variants for maintained, with forms such as "amintained", "mainatined", and "mainntained". Each of these forms differs from the correct spelling by one small edit: a doubled letter, a dropped silent letter, or a substituted vowel. It also participates in 1 confusable-pair relationship, "maintain", since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
No documented word history exists for this headword, so any spelling logic here comes from how the word's sounds map to letters, not a documented origin story. The correct English form is maintained, spelled M-A-I-N-T-A-I-N-E-D.
Definition
- 1showing maintenance or attention
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how maintained appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
The house had a neat, well-maintained garden in front.
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- amintained
- mainatined
- mainntained
- maintaiend
- maintainde
- maintainedd
- maintainned
- maintanied
- maintianed
- mainttained
- maitnained
- manitained
- miantained
- mmaintained
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of maintained - counted as single-character edits (an insertion, a deletion, or a substituted letter). The larger the bar, the easier the typo is to spot; one-edit slips are the ones that sneak past readers.
Definitions, pronunciation, and etymology for this entry are drawn from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org structured extract (CC BY-SA); frequency ordering uses the FrequencyWords open word-frequency list (2018 English corpus, MIT). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.
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Similar English words by spelling shape
Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "maintained", not the corpus desk frequency band.
Same letter count
Frequency-ranked English headwords with 10 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (14 here; floor ≥5).
What to do next
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- This headword has one recorded confusable pair with "maintain". View pair
- 14 edit-distance misspelling variants are generated for spell-check research on this headword. See variants
- Usage frequency rank #3,768 among English headwords in this corpus. Corpus statistics
- Browse more English words in the "M" letter cohort. M–Z browse
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Data Source
Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Word ordering uses an open word-frequency list; misspelling variants are generated by edit-distance from the correct headword.