maintient

\mɛ̃.tjɛ̃\

/\mɛ̃.tjɛ̃\/ verb

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The verdict

“maintient” has 13 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #6,215. The variants make it a useful spelling check.

#6,215
frequency rank, French
5,038
“M” headwords
13
tracked misspellings
4
confusable pairs

According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Troisième personne du singulier de l’indicatif présent de maintenir.

Corpus desk

Index FR-maintient · maintient · French

maintient · rank #6,215 · 13 variants · 4 confusables

  • FREQ-COMMON #6,215
  • LEN-LONG 9 letters
  • VOW-4 4 vowels
  • CONFUS-MID 4 pairs
  • VAR-HIGH 13 variants
  • BOOK-DENSE 5,038
  • PHOTO-FINISH larges

Nearest frequency peer: larges (-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 « maintient »

Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin

corpus weight

What this shows « maintient » siège parmi ces pairs FrequencyWords; la profondeur des fautes est suivie à part dans le graphique d'édition.

Source FrequencyWords open word-frequency list As of September 3, 2026

Visual similarity to commonly confused words

How many letter changes separate each confused pair (Levenshtein distance, normalized).

maintient vs maintien
89% similar
maintient vs maintenu
78% similar
maintient vs maintiens
89% similar

Source: PlainSpell confusable corpus (Wiktionary, CC BY-SA).

Key facts for maintient
PropertyValue
Headwordmaintient
LanguageFrench
Part of speechVerb
IPA\mɛ̃.tjɛ̃\
Letters9
Frequency rank#6,215
Misspellings tracked13
Confusable pairs4
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « maintient »

Cette échelle va du noyau du français courant (gauche) jusqu'à la traîne des formes rares (droite).maintientse place ici:

#1#100#1K#10K#100K
← used constantlyrarely used →

L'axe est logarithmique: chaque tic marque environ dix fois moins de fréquence. Dans la même bande de rareté figurent « larges » (#6,214), « juive » (#6,213), « modalités » (#6,217). Parmi 5,038 lemmes en « M », « maintient » est au #6,215. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

A misspelling magnet

The generator records 13 spelling variants around maintient (IPA \mɛ̃.tjɛ̃\), averb. Corpus frequency is #6,215 among 5,038 “M” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Troisième personne du singulier de l’indicatif présent de maintenir.".

Our generated misspelling index lists 13 likely wrong-spelling variants for maintient, with forms such as "amintient", "mainitent", and "mainntient". 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 4 confusable-pair relationships, "maintien", "maintenu", "maintiens", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.

Our source data has no etymology on file for this entry, so its spelling is easiest explained by how it's pronounced rather than where it came from. The correct French form is maintient, spelled M-A-I-N-T-I-E-N-T.

Definition

  1. 1
    Troisième personne du singulier de l’indicatif présent de maintenir.

Recorded use

Wiktionary examples

These source excerpts show how maintient appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.

  1. Préalablement le meunier doit déchevrer la queue, c’est-à-dire, au moyen d’un bâton de chèvre, faire tomber le support en X qui la maintient calée à son extrémité.
  2. Enfin, si l’écume stationnant ne se maintient pas tout à fait au centre, elle indique un temps variable, et si elle se rend vers un seul point au bord de la tasse sans se désagglomérer, ce sera une indication de pluie.

Common misspellings

Also misspelled as:

  • amintient
  • mainitent
  • mainntient
  • mainteint
  • maintiennt
  • maintientt
  • maintietn
  • maintinet
  • mainttient
  • maitnient
  • manitient
  • miantient
  • mmaintient

Misspelling Pattern Breakdown

How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of maintient - measured in single-character edits (insert, delete, or substitute a letter). Larger bars are easier to catch; one-edit slips are the sneakiest.

amintient2mainitent2mainntient1mainteint2maintiennt1maintientt1maintietn2maintinet2
Edit distance from "maintient"

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.

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "maintient"?
"maintient" is spelled M-A-I-N-T-I-E-N-T. The IPA pronunciation is \mɛ̃.tjɛ̃\.
What does "maintient" mean?
As a verb, "maintient" means: Troisième personne du singulier de l’indicatif présent de maintenir.
What words are commonly confused with "maintient"?
"maintient" is commonly confused with "maintien", "maintenu", "maintiens". These words look or sound similar but have different meanings. PlainSpell provides detailed comparisons for each pair.
How do you pronounce "maintient"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "maintient" is \mɛ̃.tjɛ̃\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "maintient" come from?
"maintient" is a French word. You can look up definitions, pronunciations, and spelling data for this and other words across English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, and German on PlainSpell.
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Similar French words by spelling shape

Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "maintient", not the corpus desk frequency band.

Same letter count

Frequency-ranked French headwords with 9 letters (nearest by frequency rank).

modalités#6,217installée#6,207infection#6,204ignorance#6,201

Similar misspelling depth

Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (13 here; floor ≥5).

régionaux13 variantsdivisions13 variantssymboles13 variantstransmis13 variants

Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org) Structured Wiktionary extract

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list