maintaining
main·tain·ing/meɪnˈteɪnɪŋ/noun, verb
maintaining is spelled M-A-I-N-T-A-I-N-I-N-G, 3 syllables: main·tain·ing. The wrong spelling people search most is maintaing: about 110 Bing searches a month in the United States (September 2025 to August 2026). Maintaining is a noun meaning “The act of doing maintenance”.
How many letters and syllables are in maintaining?
| Letters | 11: M-A-I-N-T-A-I-N-I-N-G |
|---|---|
| Syllables | 3: main·tain·ing |
| In writing | 18 times per million words; the 4,667th most frequent word form |
| Wrong spellings searched | 1; the most searched, maintaing, about 110 Bing searches a month (all of them) |
Sources: letters and syllables from the English Wiktionary's hyphenation or pronunciation; 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 maintaining?
Maintaining is spelled M-A-I-N-T-A-I-N-I-N-G. One wrong spelling is searched or written often enough to measure.
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 maintaining?
Maintaining appears 18 times per million words in written English, the 4,667th 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 maintaining?
- /meɪnˈteɪnɪŋ/
- /mənˈteɪnɪŋ/
Maintaining has 3 syllables, split main·tain·ing in writing.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Recordings: En-us-maintaining.ogg, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).
What does maintaining mean?
The meanings the English Wiktionary records, quoted as written there (source below).
noun
- 1
The act of doing maintenance.
verb
- 1
present participle and gerund of maintain
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
Maintaining in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese
In the sense Translations:
| Language | Words |
|---|---|
| German | Warten |
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Translations are Wiktionary's, by sense; a linked word has its own PlainSpell page.