intellectuel
\ɛ̃.te.lɛk.tɥɛl\
The verdict
“intellectuel” has 16 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #6,836. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #6,836
- frequency rank, French
- 3,561
- “I” headwords
- 16
- tracked misspellings
- 3
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Qui appartient à l’intellect ; qui est dans l’entendement.
Corpus desk
Index FR-intellectuel · intellectuel · French
intellectuel · rank #6,836 · 16 variants · 3 confusables
- FREQ-COMMON #6,836
- LEN-MEGA 12 letters
- VOW-5 5 vowels
- CONFUS-LOW 3 pairs
- VAR-HIGH 16 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,561
- PHOTO-FINISH impatience
Nearest frequency peer: impatience (-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.
Pairs de rang près de l'aimant d'erreurs « intellectuel »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- gratuits
gratuits
93,168 corpus weight
- id
id
93,167 corpus weight
- impatience
impatience
93,166 corpus weight
- intellectuel
intellectuel
93,165 corpus weight
- internautes
internautes
93,164 corpus weight
- invitée
invitée
93,163 corpus weight
What this shows « intellectuel » siège parmi ces pairs FrequencyWords; la profondeur des fautes est suivie à part dans le graphique d'édition.
Visual similarity to commonly confused words
How many letter changes separate each confused pair (Levenshtein distance, normalized).
Source: PlainSpell confusable corpus (Wiktionary, CC BY-SA).
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | intellectuel |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | \ɛ̃.te.lɛk.tɥɛl\ |
| Letters | 12 |
| Frequency rank | #6,836 |
| Misspellings tracked | 16 |
| Confusable pairs | 3 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « intellectuel »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 16 spelling variants around intellectuel (IPA \ɛ̃.te.lɛk.tɥɛl\), anadjective. Corpus frequency is #6,836 among 3,561 “I” headwords. Wiktionary lists 2 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 16 likely wrong-spelling variants for intellectuel, with forms such as "inetllectuel", "inntellectuel", and "intelectuel". Each of these forms differs from the correct spelling by one small edit: a doubled letter, a dropped silent letter, or a substituted vowel. It also participates in 3 confusable-pair relationships, "intellectuels", "intellectuelle", "intellectuelles", since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
Our source data has no etymology on file for this entry, so its spelling is easiest explained by how it's pronounced rather than where it came from. The correct French form is intellectuel, spelled I-N-T-E-L-L-E-C-T-U-E-L.
Definition
- 1Qui appartient à l’intellect ; qui est dans l’entendement.
- 2Chez qui prédomine l’usage de l’intelligence, par opposition à manuel.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how intellectuel appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Auſsi dame Experience, comparable à vn Soleil intellectuel ne se laiſſe vaincre par la nuict ombreuse dignorance, ne par leclipse de fraude & cauillation couuerte: mais de clarté naïue enlumine ſoy mesmes, & fait reſplendir toutes autres vertus celestes à elle connexees.
Mais en considérant les facultés corporelles et intellectuelles, et les autres moyens de chaque homme en particulier, nous y trouverons encore une plus grande inégalité relativement à la jouissance du droit naturel des hommes.
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- inetllectuel
- inntellectuel
- intelectuel
- intelelctuel
- intellcetuel
- intellecctuel
- intellecteul
- intellecttuel
- intellectuell
- intellectule
- intellecutel
- intelletcuel
- intlelectuel
- inttellectuel
- itnellectuel
- nitellectuel
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of intellectuel - expressed in single-character edits (insert, delete, or swap one letter). Bigger bars stand out at a glance; a one-edit slip is the hardest to catch.
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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Same letter count
Frequency-ranked French headwords with 12 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
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Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (16 here; floor ≥5).