inintelligible

/\i.nɛ̃.tɛ.li.ʒibl\/ adj

Letters

14 characters

Frequency Rank

#83,970

in French word usage

Misspellings

0

tracked variants

Confusables

0

similar word pairs

inintelligible is anFrenchadj. It means: Qui n’est pas intelligible, qu’on ne peut comprendre par l’intelligence ou l’ouïe. Pronounced \i.nɛ̃.tɛ.li.ʒibl\.

Key facts for inintelligible
PropertyValue
Headwordinintelligible
LanguageFrench
Part of speechAdj
IPA\i.nɛ̃.tɛ.li.ʒibl\
Letters14
Frequency rank#83,970
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Frequency rank visualization

Position of inintelligible in French word frequency (lower rank = more common)

Source: Wordfreq corpus

Spelling & Dictionary Insight

The French entry for inintelligible is 14 letters long, classified as anadj, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \i.nɛ̃.tɛ.li.ʒibl\. Corpus data places it at rank #83,970 in overall French word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it.The dominant gloss from Wiktionary reads: "Qui n’est pas intelligible, qu’on ne peut comprendre par l’intelligence ou l’ouïe.".

No frequent misspelling variants are recorded for inintelligible in our index, suggesting the orthography either follows predictable French patterns or the word is uncommon enough that typo corpora lack signal.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 inintelligible, spelled I-N-I-N-T-E-L-L-I-G-I-B-L-E, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.

Definition

  1. 1
    Qui n’est pas intelligible, qu’on ne peut comprendre par l’intelligence ou l’ouïe.

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This word in other languages

Frequency rank: #83,970 in French

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "inintelligible"?
"inintelligible" is spelled I-N-I-N-T-E-L-L-I-G-I-B-L-E. The IPA pronunciation is \i.nɛ̃.tɛ.li.ʒibl\.
What does "inintelligible" mean?
As an adj, "inintelligible" means: Qui n’est pas intelligible, qu’on ne peut comprendre par l’intelligence ou l’ouïe.
How do you pronounce "inintelligible"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "inintelligible" is \i.nɛ̃.tɛ.li.ʒibl\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
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Data Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Frequency data from Wordfreq. Misspellings derived from Hunspell dictionaries.