maintien
\mɛ̃.tjɛ̃\
The verdict
“maintien” has 11 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #3,273. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #3,273
- frequency rank, French
- 5,038
- “M” headwords
- 11
- tracked misspellings
- 7
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Action de maintenir.
Corpus desk
Index FR-maintien · maintien · French
maintien · rank #3,273 · 11 variants · 7 confusables
- FREQ-COMMON #3,273
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 7 pairs
- VAR-MID 11 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,038
- PHOTO-FINISH magique
Nearest frequency peer: magique (-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 « maintien »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- littéraire
littéraire
96,731 corpus weight
- longs
longs
96,730 corpus weight
- magique
magique
96,729 corpus weight
- maintien
maintien
96,728 corpus weight
- malades
malades
96,727 corpus weight
- marrant
marrant
96,726 corpus weight
What this shows « maintien » 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 | maintien |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \mɛ̃.tjɛ̃\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #3,273 |
| Misspellings tracked | 11 |
| Confusable pairs | 7 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « maintien »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 11 spelling variants around maintien (IPA \mɛ̃.tjɛ̃\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #3,273 among 5,038 “M” headwords. Wiktionary lists 2 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 11 likely wrong-spelling variants for maintien, with forms such as "amintien", "mainiten", and "mainntien". Each variant is a distinct typo pattern an edit-distance generator flags, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution. It also participates in 7 confusable-pair relationships, "martien", "maintient", "maintiens", 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 its spelling pattern is best understood through pronunciation rather than a traceable origin. The correct French form is maintien, spelled M-A-I-N-T-I-E-N.
Definition
- 1Action de maintenir.
- 2Contenance ; manière de se tenir.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how maintien appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
[…] ils n'ignorent rien de tout cela et savent notamment fort bien que c'est en l’affirmant qu'ils créeront cette éternité de barbarie nécessaire au maintien des institutions qui leur sont chères.
Nous connaissons tous la pénibilité liée à des contraintes physiques chez les perchwomans et les perchmans, en particulier par le maintien des bras en l'air à une hauteur située au dessus des épaules.
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- amintien
- mainiten
- mainntien
- maintein
- maintienn
- maintine
- mainttien
- maitnien
- manitien
- miantien
- mmaintien
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of maintien - 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 "maintien", not the corpus desk frequency band.
Same letter count
Frequency-ranked French headwords with 8 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (11 here; floor ≥5).