Maintainance or maintenance?
Did you mean maintenance? Here's the right spelling and how to remember it.
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maintainance
Correct
maintenance
Correct spelling: maintenance. Misspelling: maintainance.
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Memory tip
Main + ten + ance: the "tain" of maintain becomes "ten".
Why people write “maintainance”
“maintainance” differs from “maintenance” in 2 places: it adds an extra vowel, A; and it writes I where maintenance has E, an easy slip because in an unstressed syllable both vowels can sound like the same soft "uh".
Spell-checkers catch the mistake in a document, but not in a handwritten note, a text message or a word game. Writing the word out a few times while saying the tricky part aloud is the quickest way to make maintenance automatic.
What does “maintenance” mean?
maintenance noun
- activity involved in maintaining something in good working order
“he wrote the manual on car care”
- means of maintenance of a family or group
- court-ordered support paid by one spouse to another after they are separated
Synonyms:alimony
- the act of sustaining life by food or providing a means of subsistence
“they were in want of sustenance”
Definitions from WordNet 3.1, Princeton University. Full dictionary entry
“Maintenance” in a sentence
- The elevator is closed for maintenance.
- He wrote the manual on car care.
- They were in want of sustenance.
- Unlike champerty, criminal maintenance does not necessarily involve personal profit.
Is “maintenance” a playable word?
15 points in Scrabble · 20 in Words With Friends
- Scrabble (US)
- Scrabble (UK)
- Words With Friends
“maintainance” is not accepted in any of these games. See every word you can make from MAINTENANCE.