mainmise
\mɛ̃.miz\
The verdict
“mainmise” has 11 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #27,513. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #27,513
- frequency rank, French
- 5,038
- “M” headwords
- 11
- tracked misspellings
- 1
- confusable pair
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Saisie.
Corpus desk
Index FR-mainmise · mainmise · French
mainmise · rank #27,513 · 11 variants · 1 confusable
- FREQ-MID #27,513
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-LOW 1 pairs
- VAR-MID 11 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,038
- PHOTO-FINISH maillage
Nearest frequency peer: maillage (-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.
Pairs de rang près de l'aimant d'erreurs « mainmise »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- Mackenzie
Mackenzie
72,491 corpus weight
- Magny
Magny
72,490 corpus weight
- maillage
maillage
72,489 corpus weight
- mainmise
mainmise
72,488 corpus weight
- Malone
Malone
72,487 corpus weight
- mammouth
mammouth
72,486 corpus weight
What this shows « mainmise » siège parmi ces pairs FrequencyWords; la profondeur des fautes est suivie à part dans le graphique d'édition.
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 | mainmise |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \mɛ̃.miz\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #27,513 |
| Misspellings tracked | 11 |
| Confusable pairs | 1 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « mainmise »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 11 spelling variants around mainmise (IPA \mɛ̃.miz\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #27,513 among 5,038 “M” headwords. Wiktionary lists 2 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 11 likely wrong-spelling variants for mainmise, with forms such as "aminmise", "maimnise", and "mainimse". 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 1 confusable-pair relationship, "maîtrise", since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct French form is mainmise, spelled M-A-I-N-M-I-S-E.
Definition
- 1Saisie.
- 2Toute influence impérieuse, excessive, fâcheuse, tyrannique.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how mainmise appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Il y avait mainmise par défaut de foi et hommage.
Cette mainmise sur la liberté d’autrui, cette ingérence dans ses pensées et ses actions l’étonnaient désagréablement…
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- aminmise
- maimnise
- mainimse
- mainmies
- mainmisse
- mainmmise
- mainmsie
- mainnmise
- manimise
- mianmise
- mmainmise
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of mainmise - 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 "mainmise", not the corpus desk frequency band.
Same letter count
Frequency-ranked French headwords with 8 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (11 here; floor ≥5).