maintienne
\mɛ̃.tjɛn\
The verdict
“maintienne” has 12 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #43,000. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #43,000
- frequency rank, French
- 5,038
- “M” headwords
- 12
- tracked misspellings
- 6
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Première personne du singulier du présent du subjonctif de maintenir.
Corpus desk
Index FR-maintienne · maintienne · French
maintienne · rank #43,000 · 12 variants · 6 confusables
- FREQ-MID #43,000
- LEN-MEGA 10 letters
- VOW-5 5 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 6 pairs
- VAR-MID 12 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,038
- PHOTO-FINISH magot
Nearest frequency peer: magot (-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 « maintienne »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- Maginot
Maginot
57,004 corpus weight
- magistère
magistère
57,003 corpus weight
- magot
magot
57,002 corpus weight
- maintienne
maintienne
57,001 corpus weight
- maladif
maladif
57,000 corpus weight
- mandement
mandement
56,999 corpus weight
What this shows « maintienne » 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 | maintienne |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \mɛ̃.tjɛn\ |
| Letters | 10 |
| Frequency rank | #43,000 |
| Misspellings tracked | 12 |
| Confusable pairs | 6 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « maintienne »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 12 spelling variants around maintienne (IPA \mɛ̃.tjɛn\), averb. Corpus frequency is #43,000 among 5,038 “M” headwords. Wiktionary lists 2 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 12 likely wrong-spelling variants for maintienne, with forms such as "amintienne", "mainitenne", and "mainntienne". 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, "maintient", "maintiens", "martienne", and more, a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, so its spelling is best explained by sound-to-letter mapping rather than etymology. The correct French form is maintienne, spelled M-A-I-N-T-I-E-N-N-E.
Definition
- 1Première personne du singulier du présent du subjonctif de maintenir.
- 2Troisième personne du singulier du présent du subjonctif de maintenir.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how maintienne appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Pour que la guérison se maintienne, il a fallu pansementer le cataplasme trois jours d’affilée, sinon l’otite repart, gonfle et enflamme le tympan.
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- amintienne
- mainitenne
- mainntienne
- mainteinne
- maintiene
- maintienen
- maintinene
- mainttienne
- maitnienne
- manitienne
- miantienne
- mmaintienne
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of maintienne - counted as single-character edits (an insertion, a deletion, or a substituted letter). The larger the bar, the easier the typo is to spot; one-edit slips are the ones that sneak past readers.
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 "maintienne", not the corpus desk frequency band.
Same letter count
Frequency-ranked French headwords with 10 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (12 here; floor ≥5).