Maintenon
\mɛ̃.tə.nɔ̃\
The verdict
“Maintenon” has 13 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #48,026. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #48,026
- frequency rank, French
- 5,038
- “M” headwords
- 13
- tracked misspellings
- 6
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Commune française, située dans le département d’Eure-et-Loir.
Corpus desk
Index FR-maintenon · Maintenon · French
Maintenon · rank #48,026 · 13 variants · 6 confusables
- FREQ-MID #48,026
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 6 pairs
- VAR-HIGH 13 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,038
- PHOTO-FINISH magister
Nearest frequency peer: magister (-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 « Maintenon »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- macaire
macaire
51,978 corpus weight
- machiste
machiste
51,977 corpus weight
- magister
magister
51,976 corpus weight
- Maintenon
Maintenon
51,975 corpus weight
- Majid
Majid
51,974 corpus weight
- mangerais
mangerais
51,972 corpus weight
What this shows « Maintenon » 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 | Maintenon |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| IPA | \mɛ̃.tə.nɔ̃\ |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #48,026 |
| Misspellings tracked | 13 |
| Confusable pairs | 6 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « Maintenon »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 13 spelling variants around Maintenon (IPA \mɛ̃.tə.nɔ̃\), aproper noun. Corpus frequency is #48,026 among 5,038 “M” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Commune française, située dans le département d’Eure-et-Loir.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 13 likely wrong-spelling variants for Maintenon, with forms such as "amintenon", "mainetnon", and "mainntenon". 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 6 confusable-pair relationships, "maintenu", "maintenue", "maintenus", and more, 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 is best explained by sound-to-letter mapping rather than etymology. The correct French form is Maintenon, spelled M-A-I-N-T-E-N-O-N.
Definition
- 1Commune française, située dans le département d’Eure-et-Loir.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how Maintenon appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Le bruit courait qu’un train formé à Nogent-le-Rotrou devait nous prendre et nous conduire à Chartres, menacé par les Prussiens, lesquels avaient, disait-on, saccagé Maintenon, et campaient à Jouy.
Les Soulariots n’acquièrent des biens qu’à Saint-Piat et, accessoirement à Chartainvilliers et Maintenon, les Armenonvillois qu’à Yermenonville …, les Levesvillois à Fresnay et Neuvy, comme les Mérouvillois, les Ymonvillois à Fresnay …
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- amintenon
- mainetnon
- mainntenon
- maintenno
- maintennon
- maintenonn
- mainteonn
- maintneon
- mainttenon
- maitnenon
- manitenon
- miantenon
- mmaintenon
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of Maintenon - 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
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Same letter count
Frequency-ranked French headwords with 9 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (13 here; floor ≥5).