mainte
\mɛ̃t\
The verdict
“mainte” has 8 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #45,723. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #45,723
- frequency rank, French
- 5,038
- “M” headwords
- 8
- tracked misspellings
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Féminin singulier de maint.
Corpus desk
Index FR-mainte · mainte · French
mainte · rank #45,723 · 8 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-MID #45,723
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-MID 8 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,038
- PHOTO-FINISH Magog
Nearest frequency peer: Magog (-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 « mainte »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- léniniste
léniniste
54,281 corpus weight
- magistralem…
magistralement
54,280 corpus weight
- Magog
Magog
54,279 corpus weight
- mainte
mainte
54,278 corpus weight
- maisonnée
maisonnée
54,277 corpus weight
- Malouines
Malouines
54,276 corpus weight
What this shows « mainte » 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 | mainte |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | \mɛ̃t\ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #45,723 |
| Misspellings tracked | 8 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « mainte »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 8 spelling variants around mainte (IPA \mɛ̃t\), anadjective. Corpus frequency is #45,723 among 5,038 “M” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Féminin singulier de maint.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 8 likely wrong-spelling variants for mainte, with forms such as "aminte", "mainet", and "mainnte". Each of these forms differs from the correct spelling by one small edit: a doubled letter, a dropped silent letter, or a substituted vowel. It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "mine", "mate", "mint", and more, a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.
No borrowing history is documented for this entry, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. The correct French form is mainte, spelled M-A-I-N-T-E.
Definition
- 1Féminin singulier de maint.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how mainte appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Depuis assez longtemps déjà, on se plaignait fort de la police du bois de Boulogne. Elle était en effet exclusivement confiée à des gardes qui mettaient assurément beaucoup de zèle à s’acquitter de leur tâche, mais qui n’y pouvaient matériellement suffire. Aussi le Bois était-il devenu le refuge et le théâtre des exploits de bon nombre de maraudeurs et de…
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- aminte
- mainet
- mainnte
- maintte
- maitne
- manite
- miante
- mmainte
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of mainte - measured in single-character edits (insert, delete, or substitute a letter). Larger bars are easier to catch; one-edit slips are the sneakiest.
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 "mainte", not the corpus desk frequency band.
Same letter count
Frequency-ranked French headwords with 6 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (8 here; floor ≥5).