intaglio
/ɪnˈtæl.jəʊ/
"intaglio" is a 8-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“intaglio” is uncommon English (frequency #86,387 among 17,902 “I” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #86,387
- frequency rank, English
- 17,902
- “I” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - A design or piece of art which is engraved or etched into something.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | intaglio |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | /ɪnˈtæl.jəʊ/ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #86,387 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “intaglio” sits in English frequency
Rare enough to double-check
intaglio is uncommon English at frequency #86,387 among 17,902 “I” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed /ɪnˈtæl.jəʊ/. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
intaglio has no tracked misspelling variants, which points to an orthography that plays by predictable English rules. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
Etymologically, the entry records: Borrowed from Italian intaglio, from intagliare (“to engrave”). The correct English form is intaglio, spelled I-N-T-A-G-L-I-O.
Definition
- 1A design or piece of art which is engraved or etched into something.
- 2Any printing method in which the ink is laid upon the sunken parts of the printing form.
Etymology
Borrowed from Italian intaglio, from intagliare (“to engrave”).
This word in other languages
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 English corpus, MIT). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.
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Using “intaglio”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct English spelling is I-N-T-A-G-L-I-O - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
- Say it as /ɪnˈtæl.jəʊ/ (IPA); tap the speaker on the pronunciation badge to hear it where audio exists.
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Data Source
Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Word ordering uses an open word-frequency list; misspelling variants are generated by edit-distance from the correct headword.