maintenons
\mɛ̃.tə.nɔ̃\
The verdict
“maintenons” is uncommon French (frequency #52,184 among 5,038 “M” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #52,184
- frequency rank, French
- 5,038
- “M” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Pluriel de maintenon.
Corpus desk
Index FR-maintenons · maintenons · French
maintenons · rank #52,184 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #52,184
- LEN-MEGA 10 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,038
- PHOTO-FINISH magi
Nearest frequency peer: magi (-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.
Rangs de longue queue près de « maintenons »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- madness
madness
47,820 corpus weight
- Magdebourg
Magdebourg
47,819 corpus weight
- magi
magi
47,818 corpus weight
- maintenons
maintenons
47,817 corpus weight
- malpoli
malpoli
47,815 corpus weight
- manquerais
manquerais
47,814 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « maintenons » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | maintenons |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \mɛ̃.tə.nɔ̃\ |
| Letters | 10 |
| Frequency rank | #52,184 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « maintenons » en français
Rare enough to double-check
maintenons is uncommon French at frequency #52,184 among 5,038 “M” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \mɛ̃.tə.nɔ̃\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Pluriel de maintenon.".
No misspelling variants are generated for maintenons in our index, since its letter sequence doesn't invite the usual edit-distance slips. This entry stands alone in our confusable dataset, since its spelling is unusual enough that it doesn't cluster with a lookalike.
No borrowing history is documented for this entry, so its spelling is easiest explained by how it's pronounced rather than where it came from. The correct French form is maintenons, spelled M-A-I-N-T-E-N-O-N-S.
Definition
- 1Pluriel de maintenon.
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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