intarse
\ɛ̃.taʁs\
The verdict
“intarse” is uncommon French (outside the top frequency list), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency French
- 7
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Ancêtre de la marqueterie, technique apparut pendant l'antiquité, cette technique consiste généralement à creuser le bois, ou un autre matériau, pour y incruster des morceaux d’une autre matière te...
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Index FR-intarse · intarse · French
intarse · unranked · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-UNRANKED Unranked
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-THIN "I" thin
- PHOTO-UNK Peer pending
Desk codes from Wiktionary headword shape, FrequencyWords rank tier, confusable-pair count, generated misspelling depth, letter-cohort book size, and photo-finish peer. Not a difficulty grade.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | intarse |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ɛ̃.taʁs\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « intarse » en français
Rare enough to double-check
intarse is uncommon French outside the top frequency list, classed as anoun, transcribed \ɛ̃.taʁs\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Ancêtre de la marqueterie, technique apparut pendant l'antiquité, cette technique consiste généralement à creuser le bois, ou un autre matériau, pour y incruster des morceaux d’une autre matière te...".
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for intarse, since its letter sequence doesn't invite the usual edit-distance slips. Our dataset records no confusable match here, suggesting its spelling stands apart enough that readers rarely confuse it with something else.
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. The correct French form is intarse, spelled I-N-T-A-R-S-E.
Definition
- 1Ancêtre de la marqueterie, technique apparut pendant l'antiquité, cette technique consiste généralement à creuser le bois, ou un autre matériau, pour y incruster des morceaux d’une autre matière telle que de l'os, de la corne, du verre, de l'ivoire, des minéraux divers, ou une autre essence de bois.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how intarse appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Il est vrai que nous ne connaissons point la peinture ornementale des derniers Tcheou, mais nous pouvons nous en former une idée d'après les intarses exécutés en or ou en argent dans le bronze.
Definitions, pronunciation, and etymology for this entry are drawn from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org structured extract (CC BY-SA). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.