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intransitive-verb

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Detailed reference entry for the English word "intransitive-verb", 17-letters, with pronunciation in International Phonetic Alphabet notation, etymology traced through Germanic and Romance roots where applicable, common misspelling variants catalogued from Wiktionary, and usage frequency ranked against an open word-frequency list covering the top 100,000 English words. PlainSpell covers English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, and German spelling with confusable-pair detection that highlights visually and phonetically similar words. This entry for "intransitive-verb" 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 "intransitive-verb" for academic writing, checking homophone confusion, or exploring etymological origins, this page provides a citation-backed, free reference that requires no sign-up.

intransitive verb is aEnglishnoun. It means: An action verb which does not take a direct object. Pronounced /ɪnˌtɹænsətɪv ˈvɜːb/.

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Key facts for intransitive verb
PropertyValue
Headwordintransitive verb
LanguageEnglish
Part of speechNoun
IPA/ɪnˌtɹænsətɪv ˈvɜːb/
Letters17
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Frequency rank visualization

intransitive verb is not present in the top-100,000 ranked English corpus, typical for technical, archaic, or low-frequency vocabulary.

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Spelling & Dictionary Insight

The English entry for intransitive verb is 17 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as /ɪnˌtɹænsətɪv ˈvɜːb/. It sits outside the most-frequent rank tiers, which is often why uncommon words generate more spelling variants per reader.The dominant gloss from Wiktionary reads: "An action verb which does not take a direct object.".

No misspelling variants are generated for intransitive verb in our index, suggesting the orthography follows predictable English patterns.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.

No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. For readers arriving here from a spelling check, the authoritative guidance is: the correct English form is intransitive verb, spelled I-N-T-R-A-N-S-I-T-I-V-E- -V-E-R-B, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.

Definition

  1. 1
    An action verb which does not take a direct object.

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How do you spell "intransitive verb"?
"intransitive verb" is spelled I-N-T-R-A-N-S-I-T-I-V-E- -V-E-R-B. The IPA pronunciation is /ɪnˌtɹænsətɪv ˈvɜːb/.
What does "intransitive verb" mean?
As a noun, "intransitive verb" means: An action verb which does not take a direct object.
How do you pronounce "intransitive verb"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "intransitive verb" is /ɪnˌtɹænsətɪv ˈvɜːb/. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
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