Which to use
“maintenue” and “maintenues” are a confusable French pair: similar on the page, but distinct in meaning, check the gloss before you choose.
- #12,615
- “maintenue” frequency rank
- #26,085
- “maintenues” frequency rank
- 38700
- confusion score
Side-by-Side Comparison
| Feature | maintenue | maintenues |
|---|---|---|
| Definition | Confirmation, par jugement, dans la possession d’un bien ou d’un droit litigieux. | Pluriel de maintenue. |
Same sound, different letters: maintenue vs maintenues
Muted letters are shared; highlighted letters are the only spelling cue when pronunciation matches. Shared run: 9 letters. maintenue runs 9 letters (CVVCCVCVV) against maintenues's 10 (CVVCCVCVVC) - the length gap alone is often enough to separate them once you know to check it.
Ear matches; page differs - maintenue and maintenues
This is the hard kind. maintenue and maintenues are pronounced identically (\mɛ̃.tə.ny\) and both work as anoun. Neither the ear nor the grammar will rescue you; only the meaning does, so the glosses below are the whole decision. They differ by 1 extra letter(s) - “maintenue” sits inside “maintenues”. Our composite confusion score for this pair is 38700, derived from the frequency rank of both members and their visual similarity.
maintenue is recorded at frequency rank #12,615, classified as anoun, pronounced \mɛ̃.tə.ny\. maintenues is at rank #26,085, tagged as anoun, pronounced \mɛ̃.tə.ny\.
Glosses for this pair are partially populated in our dataset, but the full side-by-side definitions above should still guide you to the right choice.
With a confusion score of 38700, this pair ranks #253,412 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs - roughly mid-pack for confusability.
Orthographic DNA of maintenue vs maintenues
Shared letters: aeimntu. Private to "maintenue": -. Private to "maintenues": s.
"maintenue" · 9 letters · shape CVVCCVCVV · "maintenues" · 10 letters · shape CVVCCVCVVC
Known mistypes of this pair
- maintenue ← amintenue · mainetnue · mainntenue · mainteneu · maintennue · mainteune · maintneue · mainttenue
- maintenues ← amintenues · mainetnues · mainntenues · mainteneus · maintennues · maintenuess · maintenuse · mainteunes
Frequently Asked Questions
Can "maintenue" and "maintenues" be used interchangeably?
Frequency check: "maintenue" vs "maintenues" - which ranks higher?
What to do next
Sound matches; spelling doesn't. Use the exits below to lock the right form or check a cousin pair.
- Full dictionary entry for "maintenue" with definition, IPA, and generated misspellings. Word entry
- Full dictionary entry for "maintenues" - compare definitions side by side with the headword page. Word entry
- This pair ranks #253,412 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs in this corpus vintage. Corpus statistics
- "maintenue" and "maintenues" also get mixed up with nearby pairs, the highest-scored neighbour is "maintenez vs maintenues". Nearby pair
- Recorded mistypes exist for at least one side of this pair, useful when a spell-checker or OCR lands on the wrong form. See mistypes
Confusion rank #253,412 of 440,172 scored French pairs, corpus vintage 2026-09-03, not spelling advice.