maintien en position
\mɛ̃.tjɛ̃ ɑ̃ pɔ.zi.sjɔ̃\
The verdict
“maintien en position” is outside the top-ranked French vocabulary, used as a noun - the kind of word writers most often double-check.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency French
- 20
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) — Maintien à poste.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | maintien en position |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \mɛ̃.tjɛ̃ ɑ̃ pɔ.zi.sjɔ̃\ |
| Letters | 20 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “maintien en position” sits in French frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for maintien en position is 20 letters long, classified as a noun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \mɛ̃.tjɛ̃ ɑ̃ pɔ.zi.sjɔ̃\. It sits outside the most-frequent rank tiers, which is often why uncommon words generate more spelling variants per reader. Wiktionary records 2 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
No misspelling variants are generated for maintien en position in our index, suggesting the orthography follows predictable French patterns. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. For readers arriving here from a spelling check, the authoritative guidance is: the correct French form is maintien en position, spelled M-A-I-N-T-I-E-N- -E-N- -P-O-S-I-T-I-O-N, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Maintien à poste.
- 2Serrage destiné à immobiliser une pièce qui a été préalablement mise dans une position précise.
Definitions, pronunciation, and etymology for this entry are drawn from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org structured extract (CC BY-SA). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.
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- The one correct French spelling is M-A-I-N-T-I-E-N- -E-N- -P-O-S-I-T-I-O-N - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
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