maniaque
\ma.njak\
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
- loft
loft
77,392 corpus weight
- logistiques
logistiques
77,391 corpus weight
- Maastricht
Maastricht
77,390 corpus weight
- maniaque
maniaque
77,389 corpus weight
- marabout
marabout
77,388 corpus weight
- marmite
marmite
77,387 corpus weight
What this shows « maniaque » 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 | maniaque |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | \ma.njak\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #22,612 |
| Misspellings tracked | 10 |
| Confusable pairs | 7 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « maniaque »
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
- 1Qui manifeste une manie.
- 2Qui a des passions ou des exigences exagérées
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how maniaque appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Délire maniaque.
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.
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
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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).