maintained
/meɪnˈteɪnd/adjective, verb
maintained is spelled M-A-I-N-T-A-I-N-E-D. The wrong spelling people search most is mantained: about 10 Bing searches a month in the United States (September 2025 to August 2026), about 1 in 57 of all searches for the word. Maintained is an adjective meaning “showing maintenance or attention”.
How many letters and syllables are in maintained?
| Letters | 10: M-A-I-N-T-A-I-N-E-D |
|---|---|
| Syllables | 2 (from its American pronunciation) |
| In writing | 24 times per million words; the 3,752nd most frequent word form |
| Wrong spellings searched | 1; the most searched, mantained, about 10 Bing searches a month (all of them) |
Sources: letters and syllables from the English Wiktionary's hyphenation or pronunciation and the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary; written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media); Bing searches in the United States: the average month from September 2025 to August 2026 (Microsoft Advertising keyword data through DataForSEO, read September 30, 2026).
How do you spell maintained?
Maintained is spelled M-A-I-N-T-A-I-N-E-D. One wrong spelling is searched or written often enough to measure; together they are about 1 in 57 of the searches for maintained in either form.
Bing searches in the United States: the average month from September 2025 to August 2026 (Microsoft Advertising keyword data through DataForSEO, read September 30, 2026). Wrong spellings are taken from Wiktionary entries tagged "misspelling" and its obsolete or nonstandard forms, Wikipedia's Lists of common misspellings and the codespell dictionary, then measured. The proofreader's marks show the change that corrects each one.
How common is maintained?
Maintained appears 24 times per million words in written English, the 3,752nd most frequent word form in the list.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).
How do you pronounce maintained?
- /meɪnˈteɪnd/
Maintained has 2 syllables (counted from its American pronunciation in the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary).
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Recordings: En-us-maintained.ogg, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).
Forms of maintained
- more maintained comparative
- most maintained superlative
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
What does maintained mean?
The meanings the English Wiktionary records, quoted as written there (source below).
adjective
- 1
showing maintenance or attention
The house had a neat, well-maintained garden in front.
verb
- 1
simple past and past participle of maintain
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).