intaglio
/ɪnˈtæl.jəʊ/
"intaglio" is a 8-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“intaglio” is uncommon English (frequency #86,387 among 2,140 “I” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #86,387
- frequency rank, English
- 2,140
- “I” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - A design or piece of art which is engraved or etched into something.
Corpus desk
Index EN-intaglio · intaglio · English
intaglio · rank #86,387 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #86,387
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 2,140
- PHOTO-FINISH instrumentally
Nearest frequency peer: instrumentally (-1 rank slots)
Read with this headword: Spelling guide for this pattern
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.
Long-tail ranks near “intaglio”
Sparse band: bars invert rank so rarer forms read shorter
- Infantino
Infantino
13,620 corpus weight
- instate
instate
13,617 corpus weight
- instore
instore
13,616 corpus weight
- instrumenta…
instrumentally
13,615 corpus weight
- intaglio
intaglio
13,614 corpus weight
- interchangi…
interchanging
13,612 corpus weight
What this shows Long-tail view: where “intaglio” sits against similarly uncommon English ranks.
| 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) |
Long-tail rank of “intaglio” in English
Rare enough to double-check
intaglio is uncommon English at frequency #86,387 among 2,140 “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.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how intaglio appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
On a wooden pub sign daringly taken, one daylight raid, by a drunken Bartley Gobbitch, across which still survives in intaglio the legend SNIPE AND SHAFT, Teddy Bloat is mincing bananas with a great isosceles knife.
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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