intake
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Detailed reference entry for the English word "intake", 6-letters, with pronunciation in International Phonetic Alphabet notation, etymology traced through Germanic and Romance roots where applicable, common misspelling variants catalogued from Hunspell error dictionaries, and usage frequency ranked against the top 100,000 English words in the Wordfreq corpus. PlainSpell covers English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, and German spelling with confusable-pair detection that highlights visually and phonetically similar words. This entry for "intake" includes synonyms, antonyms, homophones, and cross-language translation pointers sourced from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org extract. Whether you are verifying the correct spelling of "intake" for academic writing, checking homophone confusion, or exploring etymological origins, this page provides a citation-backed, free reference that requires no sign-up.
intake is aEnglishnoun. It means: The place where water, air or other fluid is taken into a pipe or conduit; opposed to outlet. Pronounced /ˈɪnteɪk/. It ranks #7,352 in English word frequency. Often confused with INTHE and invade.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | intake |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | /ˈɪnteɪk/ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #7,352 |
| Misspellings tracked | 8 |
| Confusable pairs | 10 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
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The English entry for intake is 6 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as /ˈɪnteɪk/. Corpus data places it at rank #7,352 in overall English word frequency, indicating it appears regularly in written and spoken text.Wiktionary records 10 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 8 documented wrong-spelling variants for intake, with forms such as "inatke", "inntake", and "intaek". Each variant represents a distinct typo pattern that appears often enough in corpora to be worth flagging, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution.It also participates in 10 confusable-pair relationships, "INTHE", "invade", "invoke", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
Etymologically, the entry records: From English dialectal (Northern England/Scotland), deverbal of take in, equivalent to in- + take. More at in-, take. Root origin matters for spelling because borrowed morphemes (Greek, Latin, Old French, Old English) carry their source-language orthographic conventions into modern English, which is why historical etymology is often the cleanest predictor of whether a cluster like "-ough", "-eau", or "-tion" will appear. For readers arriving here from a spelling check, the authoritative guidance is: the correct English form is intake, spelled I-N-T-A-K-E, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1The place where water, air or other fluid is taken into a pipe or conduit; opposed to outlet.
- 2The beginning of a contraction or narrowing in a tube or cylinder.
- 3The quantity taken in.
- 4An act or instance of taking in.
- 5A nostril, especially a large one.
- 6The people taken into an organization or establishment at a particular time.
- 7The process of screening a juvenile offender to decide upon release or referral.
- 8A tract of land enclosed.
- 9Any kind of cheat or imposition; the act of taking someone in.
- 10The part of language input that is actually processed by a learner.
Etymology
From English dialectal (Northern England/Scotland), deverbal of take in, equivalent to in- + take. More at in-, take.
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Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: inatke,inntake,intaek,intakke,intkae,inttake,itnake,nitake
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Relative frequency of common misspelling types for intake
Misspelling Variants of "intake"
Frequency rank: #7,352 in English
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