intrapreneur
/ˌɪn.tɹə.pɹəˈnɝ/noun
intrapreneur is a noun meaning “A person employed to work independently within a company in order to introduce innovation and to revitalize and diversify its business” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is spelled I-N-T-R-A-P-R-E-N-E-U-R and has 4 syllables, and it appears about once in every 79 million words in written English (wordfreq, 2021 data). The plural of intrapreneur is intrapreneurs.
What does intrapreneur mean?
noun
- 1
A person employed to work independently within a company in order to introduce innovation and to revitalize and diversify its business.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How do you pronounce intrapreneur?
- UK /ˌɪn.tɹə.pɹəˈnɜː/
- US /ˌɪn.tɹə.pɹəˈnɝ/
- US /ˌɪn.tɹə.pɹəˈnʊɚ/
Intrapreneur has 4 syllables (counted from the pronunciation).
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
Forms of intrapreneur
- intrapreneurs plural
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How common is intrapreneur?
Intrapreneur appears about once in every 79 million words in written English, the 282,993rd most frequent word form in the list.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).
Where does intrapreneur come from?
From intra- + -preneur.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).