maintiens
\mɛ̃.tjɛ̃\
The verdict
“maintiens” has 13 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #23,929. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #23,929
- frequency rank, French
- 5,038
- “M” headwords
- 13
- tracked misspellings
- 7
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Pluriel de maintien.
Corpus desk
Index FR-maintiens · maintiens · French
maintiens · rank #23,929 · 13 variants · 7 confusables
- FREQ-MID #23,929
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 7 pairs
- VAR-HIGH 13 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,038
- PHOTO-FINISH maillon
Nearest frequency peer: maillon (-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 « maintiens »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- légiférer
légiférer
76,075 corpus weight
- maillon
maillon
76,073 corpus weight
- maintiens
maintiens
76,072 corpus weight
- maliens
maliens
76,071 corpus weight
- maple
maple
76,070 corpus weight
- maur
maur
76,069 corpus weight
What this shows « maintiens » 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 | maintiens |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \mɛ̃.tjɛ̃\ |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #23,929 |
| Misspellings tracked | 13 |
| Confusable pairs | 7 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « maintiens »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 13 spelling variants around maintiens (IPA \mɛ̃.tjɛ̃\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #23,929 among 5,038 “M” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Pluriel de maintien.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 13 likely wrong-spelling variants for maintiens, with forms such as "amintiens", "mainitens", and "mainntiens". 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 7 confusable-pair relationships, "martiens", "maintient", "maintes", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
No documented word history exists for this headword, so its spelling pattern is best understood through pronunciation rather than a traceable origin. The correct French form is maintiens, spelled M-A-I-N-T-I-E-N-S.
Definition
- 1Pluriel de maintien.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how maintiens appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Dans les autres cas, les décisions ont été très diverses, allant d’une restitution très rapide des enfants sans même passer devant le juge, à des maintiens de plusieurs mois en placement.
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- amintiens
- mainitens
- mainntiens
- mainteins
- maintienns
- maintienss
- maintiesn
- maintines
- mainttiens
- maitniens
- manitiens
- miantiens
- mmaintiens
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of maintiens - 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 "maintiens", 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).