intestate
/ɪnˈtɛsteɪt/
"intestate" is a 9-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“intestate” is uncommon English (frequency #76,886 among 2,140 “I” headwords), classed as an adjective. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #76,886
- frequency rank, English
- 2,140
- “I” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Without a valid will indicating whom to leave one's estate to after death.
Corpus desk
Index EN-intestate · intestate · English
intestate · rank #76,886 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #76,886
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 2,140
- PHOTO-FINISH interscholast…
Nearest frequency peer: interscholastic (-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 “intestate”
Sparse band: bars invert rank so rarer forms read shorter
- intercooler
intercooler
23,119 corpus weight
- intercostal
intercostal
23,118 corpus weight
- interschola…
interscholastic
23,116 corpus weight
- intestate
intestate
23,115 corpus weight
- intravascul…
intravascular
23,114 corpus weight
- intron
intron
23,113 corpus weight
What this shows Long-tail view: where “intestate” sits against similarly uncommon English ranks.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | intestate |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | /ɪnˈtɛsteɪt/ |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #76,886 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Long-tail rank of “intestate” in English
Rare enough to double-check
intestate is uncommon English at frequency #76,886 among 2,140 “I” headwords, classed as anadjective, transcribed /ɪnˈtɛsteɪt/. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
Zero misspellings are on record for intestate in our index, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, a sign it's visually distinctive enough not to be mixed up with another word.
Etymologically, the entry records: From Latin intestātus, from in- (“not”) + testātus (“testate”), see -ate (adjective-forming suffix) and -ate (noun-forming suffix). The correct English form is intestate, spelled I-N-T-E-S-T-A-T-E.
Definition
- 1Without a valid will indicating whom to leave one's estate to after death.
- 2Not devised or bequeathed; not disposed of by will.
Etymology
From Latin intestātus, from in- (“not”) + testātus (“testate”), see -ate (adjective-forming suffix) and -ate (noun-forming suffix).
Antonyms
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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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