intellectuelle

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The French entry for intellectuelle is 14 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \ɛ̃.te.lɛk.tɥɛl\. Corpus data places it at rank #4,497 in overall French word frequency, indicating it appears regularly in written and spoken text.The dominant gloss from Wiktionary reads: "Femme dont l’activité repose sur l’exercice de l’esprit, qui s’engage dans la sphère publique pour faire part de ses analyses.".

Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 17 documented wrong-spelling variants for intellectuelle, with forms such as "inetllectuelle", "inntellectuelle", and "intelectuelle". 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 3 confusable-pair relationships, "intellectuels", "intellectuelles", "intellectuel", 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 intellectuelle, spelled I-N-T-E-L-L-E-C-T-U-E-L-L-E, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.