maine
The verdict
“maine” sits in 20 confusable pairs (corpus #8,880) as an adjective. The look-alike neighbours are the real trap.
- #8,880
- frequency rank, French
- 5,038
- “M” headwords
- 4
- tracked misspellings
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Grand.
Corpus desk
Index FR-maine · maine · French
maine · rank #8,880 · 4 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-COMMON #8,880
- LEN-MID 5 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-LOW 4 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,038
- PHOTO-FINISH lycéens
Nearest frequency peer: lycéens (-1 rank slots)
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.
Voisins de fréquence du confusable « maine »
Pairs de poids proche dans le corpus, séparés des confusables ci-dessous
- localité
localité
91,124 corpus weight
- Lucie
Lucie
91,123 corpus weight
- lycéens
lycéens
91,122 corpus weight
- maine
maine
91,121 corpus weight
- manipuler
manipuler
91,120 corpus weight
- manques
manques
91,119 corpus weight
What this shows Les barres placent « maine » face aux lemmes français les plus proches par rang, pas un reprint du bureau des confusables.
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 | maine |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #8,880 |
| Misspellings tracked | 4 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Rang de corpus près des confusables de « maine »
Easy to mix with look-alikes
The spelling risk for maine is neighbouring look-alikes ("min", "man", …), not just typos; it is anadjective. Frequency #8,880 among 5,038 “M” headwords. Gloss: "Grand.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 4 likely wrong-spelling variants for maine, with forms such as "maien", "mainne", and "miane". Every one of these variants traces to a single-character edit -- an added or dropped letter, a swapped consonant, or a vowel swap -- the kind of slip a spell-checker is built to catch. It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "min", "man", "mie", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, so its spelling is easiest explained by how it's pronounced rather than where it came from. The correct French form is maine, spelled M-A-I-N-E.
Definition
- 1Grand.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how maine appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
magne empereour.
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- maien
- mainne
- miane
- mmaine
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of maine - expressed in single-character edits (insert, delete, or swap one letter). Bigger bars stand out at a glance; a one-edit slip is the hardest to catch.
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 French corpus, MIT). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.
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Similar French words by spelling shape
Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "maine", not the corpus desk frequency band.
Same letter count
Frequency-ranked French headwords with 5 letters (nearest by frequency rank).