intendant
"intendant" is a 9-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“intendant” is uncommon English (frequency #73,300 among 2,140 “I” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #73,300
- frequency rank, English
- 2,140
- “I” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - The administrator of an opera house or theater.
Corpus desk
Index EN-intendant · intendant · English
intendant · rank #73,300 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #73,300
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 2,140
- PHOTO-FINISH interactively
Nearest frequency peer: interactively (+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 “intendant”
Sparse band: bars invert rank so rarer forms read shorter
- incredulous…
incredulously
26,707 corpus weight
- infanta
infanta
26,706 corpus weight
- intendant
intendant
26,701 corpus weight
- interactive…
interactively
26,700 corpus weight
- IPV
IPV
26,696 corpus weight
- ironwork
ironwork
26,695 corpus weight
What this shows Long-tail view: where “intendant” sits against similarly uncommon English ranks.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | intendant |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #73,300 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Long-tail rank of “intendant” in English
Rare enough to double-check
intendant is uncommon English at frequency #73,300 among 2,140 “I” headwords, classed as anoun. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 3 senses are on record.
Zero misspellings are on record for intendant in our index, a straightforward case of a spelling with little room for common typos. Our confusable-pair dataset has no match for it, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
Etymologically, the entry records: Originally and usually from French intendant, but translating Spanish or Chinese equivalents in some contexts. The correct English form is intendant, spelled I-N-T-E-N-D-A-N-T.
Definition
- 1The administrator of an opera house or theater.
- 2One who has the charge, direction, or management of some public business; a superintendent.
- 3A governor in various specific contexts, including certain South American countries, and historically in the kingdoms of Spain, Portugal, and France, and in imperial China.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how intendant appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
an intendant of finance
By-and-by, she wandered away to an unnecessary revelation of her master's whereabouts: gone to help in the search for his landlord, the Sieur de Poissy, who lived at the château just above, and who had not returned from his chase the day before; so the intendant imagined he might have met with some accident, and had summoned the neighbours to beat the for…
Etymology
Originally and usually from French intendant, but translating Spanish or Chinese equivalents in some contexts.
Synonyms
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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Similar English words by spelling shape
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Same letter count
Frequency-ranked English headwords with 9 letters (nearest by frequency rank).