How to Spell Maintenance

How to Spell Maintenance

Which is correct maintainance or maintenance?

Maintainance is a misspelling of the ideal word. … The irregular pattern of some English words makes us understand that instead of writing Maintainance as (maintain + anace), it is right as (mainte + nance). Examples: Maintainance is the wrong way of spelling the noun form of maintain.

Are there two ways to spell maintenance?

Based on the pronunciation, maintaining a system up and running is spelled “maintenance” instead of “maintainance.” Because when we say it out loud, the word is vocalized as “main-TEN-ence” instead of “main-TAIN-ence.” The word “maintainance” is misspelled according to the English dictionary.
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