calcul intensif
\kal.ky.l‿ɛ̃.tɑ̃.sif\
The verdict
“calcul intensif” is outside the top-ranked French vocabulary, used as a noun - the kind of word writers most often double-check.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency French
- 15
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) — Ensemble des techniques et des moyens destinés à traiter des applications complexes en faisant appel à des ordinateurs spécialisés dans le traitement rapide de gros volumes de données numériques.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | calcul intensif |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \kal.ky.l‿ɛ̃.tɑ̃.sif\ |
| Letters | 15 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “calcul intensif” sits in French frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for calcul intensif is 15 letters long, classified as a noun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \kal.ky.l‿ɛ̃.tɑ̃.sif\. 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: "Ensemble des techniques et des moyens destinés à traiter des applications complexes en faisant appel à des ordinateurs spécialisés dans le traitement rapide de gros volumes de données numériques.".
No misspelling variants are generated for calcul intensif in our index, suggesting the orthography follows predictable French 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 French form is calcul intensif, spelled C-A-L-C-U-L- -I-N-T-E-N-S-I-F, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Ensemble des techniques et des moyens destinés à traiter des applications complexes en faisant appel à des ordinateurs spécialisés dans le traitement rapide de gros volumes de données numériques.
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- The one correct French spelling is C-A-L-C-U-L- -I-N-T-E-N-S-I-F - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
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