maintenus
\mɛ̃.tə.ny\
The verdict
“maintenus” has 13 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #19,064. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #19,064
- frequency rank, French
- 5,038
- “M” headwords
- 13
- tracked misspellings
- 8
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Pluriel de maintenu.
Corpus desk
Index FR-maintenus · maintenus · French
maintenus · rank #19,064 · 13 variants · 8 confusables
- FREQ-MID #19,064
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 8 pairs
- VAR-HIGH 13 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,038
- PHOTO-FINISH lâchez
Nearest frequency peer: lâchez (-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 « maintenus »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- lorrain
lorrain
80,941 corpus weight
- lynch
lynch
80,939 corpus weight
- lâchez
lâchez
80,938 corpus weight
- maintenus
maintenus
80,937 corpus weight
- Mamadou
Mamadou
80,936 corpus weight
- mangeait
mangeait
80,935 corpus weight
What this shows « maintenus » 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 | maintenus |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \mɛ̃.tə.ny\ |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #19,064 |
| Misspellings tracked | 13 |
| Confusable pairs | 8 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « maintenus »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 13 spelling variants around maintenus (IPA \mɛ̃.tə.ny\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #19,064 among 5,038 “M” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Pluriel de maintenu.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 13 likely wrong-spelling variants for maintenus, with forms such as "amintenus", "mainetnus", and "mainntenus". 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 8 confusable-pair relationships, "maintes", "maintiens", "maintenu", and more, a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so its spelling pattern is best understood through pronunciation rather than a traceable origin. The correct French form is maintenus, spelled M-A-I-N-T-E-N-U-S.
Definition
- 1Pluriel de maintenu.
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- amintenus
- mainetnus
- mainntenus
- maintennus
- maintensu
- maintenuss
- mainteuns
- maintneus
- mainttenus
- maitnenus
- manitenus
- miantenus
- mmaintenus
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of maintenus - 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 "maintenus", not the corpus desk frequency band.
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).