maintiennent
\mɛ̃.tjɛn\
The verdict
“maintiennent” has 16 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #16,175. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #16,175
- frequency rank, French
- 5,038
- “M” headwords
- 16
- tracked misspellings
- 1
- confusable pair
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Troisième personne du pluriel de l’indicatif présent de maintenir.
Corpus desk
Index FR-maintiennent · maintiennent · French
maintiennent · rank #16,175 · 16 variants · 1 confusable
- FREQ-MID #16,175
- LEN-MEGA 12 letters
- VOW-5 5 vowels
- CONFUS-LOW 1 pairs
- VAR-HIGH 16 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,038
- PHOTO-FINISH Maggie
Nearest frequency peer: Maggie (-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 « maintiennent »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- locomotive
locomotive
83,829 corpus weight
- Lydia
Lydia
83,828 corpus weight
- Maggie
Maggie
83,827 corpus weight
- maintiennent
maintiennent
83,826 corpus weight
- malentendu
malentendu
83,825 corpus weight
- malien
malien
83,824 corpus weight
What this shows « maintiennent » 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 | maintiennent |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \mɛ̃.tjɛn\ |
| Letters | 12 |
| Frequency rank | #16,175 |
| Misspellings tracked | 16 |
| Confusable pairs | 1 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « maintiennent »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 16 spelling variants around maintiennent (IPA \mɛ̃.tjɛn\), averb. Corpus frequency is #16,175 among 5,038 “M” headwords. Wiktionary lists 2 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 16 likely wrong-spelling variants for maintiennent, with forms such as "amintiennent", "mainitennent", and "mainntiennent". 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 1 confusable-pair relationship, "maintienne", since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
No borrowing history is documented for this entry, so its spelling is best read as a straightforward mapping from sound to letter. The correct French form is maintiennent, spelled M-A-I-N-T-I-E-N-N-E-N-T.
Definition
- 1Troisième personne du pluriel de l’indicatif présent de maintenir.
- 2Troisième personne du pluriel du présent du subjonctif de maintenir.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how maintiennent appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Effort littéralement démesuré, procédant sans art, opérant comme une contre-chirurgie, désaccouchant de lui-même, se libérant des mains et des forces qui la maintiennent dans l'écart - au centre d’un écart qui ne devrait pas s’ouvrir ou déboucher sur un autre temps.
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- amintiennent
- mainitennent
- mainntiennent
- mainteinnent
- maintienennt
- maintienent
- maintiennennt
- maintiennentt
- maintiennetn
- maintiennnet
- maintinenent
- mainttiennent
- maitniennent
- manitiennent
- miantiennent
- mmaintiennent
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of maintiennent - 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 "maintiennent", not the corpus desk frequency band.
Same letter count
Frequency-ranked French headwords with 12 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (16 here; floor ≥5).