maniaque

\ma.njak\

/\ma.njak\/ adj

The verdict

“maniaque” has 10 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #22,612. The variants make it a useful spelling check.

#22,612
frequency rank, French
5,038
“M” headwords
10
tracked misspellings
7
confusable pairs

According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Qui manifeste une manie.

Corpus desk

Index FR-maniaque · maniaque · French

maniaque · rank #22,612 · 10 variants · 7 confusables

  • FREQ-MID #22,612
  • LEN-LONG 8 letters
  • VOW-5 5 vowels
  • CONFUS-MID 7 pairs
  • VAR-MID 10 variants
  • BOOK-DENSE 5,038
  • PHOTO-FINISH Maastricht

Nearest frequency peer: Maastricht (-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 « maniaque »

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

corpus weight

What this shows « maniaque » 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).

maniaque vs manque
75% similar
maniaque vs Monique
63% similar
maniaque vs matraque
75% similar

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

Key facts for maniaque
PropertyValue
Headwordmaniaque
LanguageFrench
Part of speechAdjective
IPA\ma.njak\
Letters8
Frequency rank#22,612
Misspellings tracked10
Confusable pairs7
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « maniaque »

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

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

Les tics avancent en logarithme; chacun est de l'ordre de dix fois plus rare. Dans la même bande de rareté figurent « Maastricht » (#22,611), « marabout » (#22,613), « logistiques » (#22,610). Parmi 5,038 lemmes en « M », « maniaque » est au #22,612. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

A misspelling magnet

The generator records 10 spelling variants around maniaque (IPA \ma.njak\), anadjective. Corpus frequency is #22,612 among 5,038 “M” headwords. Wiktionary lists 2 senses, so context still picks the gloss.

Our generated misspelling index lists 10 likely wrong-spelling variants for maniaque, with forms such as "amniaque", "mainaque", and "manaique". 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, "manque", "Monique", "matraque", and more, since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.

No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so its spelling is best explained by sound-to-letter mapping rather than etymology. The correct French form is maniaque, spelled M-A-N-I-A-Q-U-E.

Definition

  1. 1
    Qui manifeste une manie.
  2. 2
    Qui a des passions ou des exigences exagérées

Recorded use

Wiktionary examples

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

  1. Délire maniaque.
  2. Je ne crois pas beaucoup aux histoires de peurs et d'envies de femmes grosses ; mais ce qui est certain, c'est que la comtesse est maniaque, et la manie est transmissible par le sang…

Synonyms

This word in other languages

Common misspellings

Also misspelled as:

  • amniaque
  • mainaque
  • manaique
  • maniaqeu
  • maniaqque
  • maniauqe
  • maniqaue
  • manniaque
  • mmaniaque
  • mnaiaque

Misspelling Pattern Breakdown

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

amniaque2mainaque2manaique2maniaqeu2maniaqque1maniauqe2maniqaue2manniaque1
Edit distance from "maniaque"

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 "maniaque"?
"maniaque" is spelled M-A-N-I-A-Q-U-E. The IPA pronunciation is \ma.njak\.
What does "maniaque" mean?
As an adjective, "maniaque" means: Qui manifeste une manie.
What words are commonly confused with "maniaque"?
"maniaque" is commonly confused with "manque", "Monique", "matraque". These words look or sound similar but have different meanings. PlainSpell provides detailed comparisons for each pair.
How do you pronounce "maniaque"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "maniaque" is \ma.njak\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "maniaque" come from?
"maniaque" 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 "maniaque", not the corpus desk frequency band.

Same letter count

Frequency-ranked French headwords with 8 letters (nearest by frequency rank).

Similar misspelling depth

Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (10 here; floor ≥5).

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

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list