maintenait
\mɛ̃.tə.nɛ\
The verdict
“maintenait” has 14 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #33,770. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #33,770
- frequency rank, French
- 5,038
- “M” headwords
- 14
- tracked misspellings
- 2
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Troisième personne du singulier de l’imparfait de maintenir.
Corpus desk
Index FR-maintenait · maintenait · French
maintenait · rank #33,770 · 14 variants · 2 confusables
- FREQ-MID #33,770
- LEN-MEGA 10 letters
- VOW-5 5 vowels
- CONFUS-LOW 2 pairs
- VAR-HIGH 14 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,038
- PHOTO-FINISH madre
Nearest frequency peer: madre (-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 « maintenait »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- légionnaire
légionnaire
66,234 corpus weight
- Machiavel
Machiavel
66,233 corpus weight
- madre
madre
66,232 corpus weight
- maintenait
maintenait
66,231 corpus weight
- majorités
majorités
66,230 corpus weight
- maladroits
maladroits
66,229 corpus weight
What this shows « maintenait » 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 | maintenait |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \mɛ̃.tə.nɛ\ |
| Letters | 10 |
| Frequency rank | #33,770 |
| Misspellings tracked | 14 |
| Confusable pairs | 2 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « maintenait »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 14 spelling variants around maintenait (IPA \mɛ̃.tə.nɛ\), averb. Corpus frequency is #33,770 among 5,038 “M” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Troisième personne du singulier de l’imparfait de maintenir.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 14 likely wrong-spelling variants for maintenait, with forms such as "amintenait", "mainetnait", and "mainntenait". 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 2 confusable-pair relationships, "maintenir", "maintenant", where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
No borrowing history is documented for this entry, so its spelling pattern is best understood through pronunciation rather than a traceable origin. The correct French form is maintenait, spelled M-A-I-N-T-E-N-A-I-T.
Definition
- 1Troisième personne du singulier de l’imparfait de maintenir.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how maintenait appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Mais, pour contre-balancer de tels désavantages, la marquise d’Aubrion avait donné à sa fille un air très distingué, l’avait soumise à une hygiène qui maintenait provisoirement le nez à un ton de chair raisonnable, lui avait appris l’art de se mettre avec goût, l’avait dotée de jolies manières, lui avait enseigné ces regards mélancoliques qui intéressent…
En effet, dans la nuit précédente, comme dans la matinée même, le ciel était couvert d’un cumulo-stratus, et à sept heures du matin le thermomètre se maintenait à 100,5.
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- amintenait
- mainetnait
- mainntenait
- mainteanit
- maintenaitt
- maintenati
- mainteniat
- maintennait
- maintneait
- mainttenait
- maitnenait
- manitenait
- miantenait
- mmaintenait
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of maintenait - counted as single-character edits (an insertion, a deletion, or a substituted letter). The larger the bar, the easier the typo is to spot; one-edit slips are the ones that sneak past readers.
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
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Same letter count
Frequency-ranked French headwords with 10 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (14 here; floor ≥5).