Intrigant
[ɪntʁiˈɡant]
The verdict
“Intrigant” is uncommon German (outside the top frequency list), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency German
- 9
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Person, die dazu neigt, zu intrigieren
Corpus desk
Index DE-intrigant · Intrigant · German
Intrigant · unranked · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-UNRANKED Unranked
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-THIN "I" thin
- PHOTO-UNK Peer pending
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.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Intrigant |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [ɪntʁiˈɡant] |
| Letters | 9 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Langschwanz-Rang von „Intrigant“ im Deutschen
Rare enough to double-check
Intrigant is uncommon German outside the top frequency list, classed as anoun, transcribed [ɪntʁiˈɡant]. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Person, die dazu neigt, zu intrigieren".
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for Intrigant, since its letter pattern doesn't lend itself to common typo substitutions. This entry stands alone in our confusable dataset, a sign it's visually distinctive enough not to be mixed up with another word.
This entry's etymology isn't recorded, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct German form is Intrigant, spelled I-N-T-R-I-G-A-N-T.
Definition
- 1Person, die dazu neigt, zu intrigieren
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how Intrigant appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Nehmt euch vor diesem Intriganten in Acht!
„So bot er denn dreist dem Kardinal Alberoni seine Dienste an und wurde in dessen Ministerium ein ebenso unbedeutender Intrigant, wie sein Herr ein vortrefflicher Intrigant war.“
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Definitions, pronunciation, and etymology for this entry are drawn from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org structured extract (CC BY-SA). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.