intellectual
\in.tel.let.ˈtɥal\
The verdict
“intellectual” is uncommon French (frequency #71,615 among 3,561 “I” headwords), classed as an adjective. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #71,615
- frequency rank, French
- 3,561
- “I” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Intellectuel.
Corpus desk
Index FR-intellectual · intellectual · French
intellectual · rank #71,615 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #71,615
- LEN-MEGA 12 letters
- VOW-5 5 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,561
- PHOTO-FINISH installeront
Nearest frequency peer: installeront (-1 rank slots)
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.
Rangs de longue queue près de « intellectual »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- injectable
injectable
28,389 corpus weight
- inspireront
inspireront
28,388 corpus weight
- installeront
installeront
28,387 corpus weight
- intellectual
intellectual
28,386 corpus weight
- intervenaie…
intervenaient
28,384 corpus weight
- intubation
intubation
28,383 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « intellectual » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | intellectual |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | \in.tel.let.ˈtɥal\ |
| Letters | 12 |
| Frequency rank | #71,615 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « intellectual » en français
Rare enough to double-check
intellectual is uncommon French at frequency #71,615 among 3,561 “I” headwords, classed as anadjective, transcribed \in.tel.let.ˈtɥal\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Intellectuel.".
We couldn't generate a plausible misspelling set for intellectual, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, since its spelling is unusual enough that it doesn't cluster with a lookalike.
No documented word history exists for this headword, so its spelling pattern is best understood through pronunciation rather than a traceable origin. The correct French form is intellectual, spelled I-N-T-E-L-L-E-C-T-U-A-L.
Definition
- 1Intellectuel.
Definitions, pronunciation, and etymology for this entry are drawn from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org structured extract (CC BY-SA); frequency ordering uses the FrequencyWords open word-frequency list (2018 French corpus, MIT). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.
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