maniac

ma·ni·ac/ˈmeɪ.niˌæk/noun

maniac is spelled M-A-N-I-A-C: 6 letters and 3 syllables (ma·ni·ac). It appears 1.7 times per million words in written English, the 21,798th most frequent word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). As a noun, maniac means “An insane person, especially one who suffers from a mania” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The plural of maniac is maniacs.

How many letters and syllables are in maniac?

Letters	6: M-A-N-I-A-C
Syllables	3: ma·ni·ac
In writing	1.7 times per million words; the 21,798th most frequent word form
Wrong spellings searched	none measured in search
Rhymes with	egomaniac pyromaniac
Same letters	caiman mancia

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); rhymes and same-letter words are computed by PlainSpell from its own word list.

How common is maniac?

Maniac appears 1.7 times per million words in written English, the 21,798th most frequent word form in the list.

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Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).

How do you pronounce maniac?

US /ˈmeɪ.niˌæk/

Maniac has 3 syllables, split ma·ni·ac in writing.

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Recordings: LL-Q1860_(eng)-Vealhurl-maniac.wav, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).

What rhymes with maniac?

2 words on PlainSpell end in the same sounds as maniac from its last stressed vowel (/eɪniæk/):

Spelled with the same letters in another order: caiman, mancia.

Computed by PlainSpell from the pronunciations in the English Wiktionary (dump of September 2, 2026): a rhyme shares every sound from the last stressed vowel to the end; ordered by written frequency (wordfreq 3.1).

Forms of maniac

maniacs plural

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).

What does maniac mean?

The meanings the English Wiktionary records, quoted as written there (source below).

noun

1
An insane person, especially one who suffers from a mania.
She was driving like a maniac.
2
A fanatic, a person with an obsession.
He's a manga maniac.
3
Ellipsis of sex maniac.

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).

Maniac in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese

Language	Words
French	maniaque (insane person), cinglé, cinglée (fanatic, obsessive), -mane (indicating a person who experiences compulsion)
German	Irrer, Irre (insane person), Verrückter, Verrückte (fanatic, obsessive)
Portuguese	maníaco (insane person), -maníaco (indicating a person who experiences compulsion)
Spanish	maníaco, maniaco (insane person), maniático (fanatic, obsessive), -mano (indicating a person who experiences compulsion)

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.