intact
Letters
6 characters
Frequency Rank
#15,655
in French word usage
Misspellings
9
tracked variants
Confusables
7
similar word pairs
intact is anFrenchadj. It means: À quoi l’on n’a pas touché, dont on n’a rien retranché. Pronounced \ɛ̃.takt\. Often confused with intacte and intacts.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | intact |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adj |
| IPA | \ɛ̃.takt\ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #15,655 |
| Misspellings tracked | 9 |
| Confusable pairs | 7 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
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Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for intact is 6 letters long, classified as anadj, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \ɛ̃.takt\. Corpus data places it at rank #15,655 in overall French word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it.Wiktionary records 7 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 9 documented wrong-spelling variants for intact, with forms such as "inatct", "inntact", and "intacct". Each variant represents a distinct typo pattern that appears often enough in corpora to be worth flagging, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution.It also participates in 7 confusable-pair relationships, "intacte", "intacts", "intactes", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
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 intact, spelled I-N-T-A-C-T, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1À quoi l’on n’a pas touché, dont on n’a rien retranché.
- 2Qui n’a pas souffert d’altération.
- 3Qualifie une réputation qui n’a jamais été attaquée, ou sur laquelle la calomnie n’a pu attirer aucun soupçon.
- 4Qui est à l’abri de toute sorte de reproche, en parlant de vertu, de probité, etc.
- 5Qui n’a souffert aucune atteinte, en parlant de l’honneur.
- 6À qui l’on ne peut rien reprocher de contraire à la probité.
- 7Vierge, généralement en parlant d’une femme.
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Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: inatct,inntact,intacct,intactt,intatc,intcat,inttact,itnact,nitact
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
Relative frequency of common misspelling types for intact
Misspelling Variants of "intact"
Frequency rank: #15,655 in French
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