intellectuelle
\ɛ̃.te.lɛk.tɥɛl\
The verdict
“intellectuelle” has 17 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #4,497. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #4,497
- frequency rank, French
- 3,561
- “I” headwords
- 17
- tracked misspellings
- 3
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Femme dont l’activité repose sur l’exercice de l’esprit, qui s’engage dans la sphère publique pour faire part de ses analyses.
Corpus desk
Index FR-intellectuelle · intellectuelle · French
intellectuelle · rank #4,497 · 17 variants · 3 confusables
- FREQ-COMMON #4,497
- LEN-MEGA 14 letters
- VOW-6 6 vowels
- CONFUS-LOW 3 pairs
- VAR-HIGH 17 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,561
- PHOTO-FINISH infrastructur…
Nearest frequency peer: infrastructures (-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 « intellectuelle »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- gâteau
gâteau
95,507 corpus weight
- indépendants
indépendants
95,506 corpus weight
- infrastruct…
infrastructures
95,505 corpus weight
- intellectue…
intellectuelle
95,504 corpus weight
- intense
intense
95,503 corpus weight
- joindre
joindre
95,502 corpus weight
What this shows « intellectuelle » 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 | intellectuelle |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ɛ̃.te.lɛk.tɥɛl\ |
| Letters | 14 |
| Frequency rank | #4,497 |
| Misspellings tracked | 17 |
| Confusable pairs | 3 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « intellectuelle »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 17 spelling variants around intellectuelle (IPA \ɛ̃.te.lɛk.tɥɛl\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #4,497 among 3,561 “I” headwords. Dominant gloss: "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 generated misspelling index lists 17 likely wrong-spelling variants for intellectuelle, with forms such as "inetllectuelle", "inntellectuelle", and "intelectuelle". Every one of these variants traces to a single-character edit -- an added or dropped letter, a swapped consonant, or a vowel swap -- the kind of slip a spell-checker is built to catch. It also participates in 3 confusable-pair relationships, "intellectuels", "intellectuelles", "intellectuel", since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct French form is intellectuelle, spelled I-N-T-E-L-L-E-C-T-U-E-L-L-E.
Definition
- 1Femme dont l’activité repose sur l’exercice de l’esprit, qui s’engage dans la sphère publique pour faire part de ses analyses.
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- inetllectuelle
- inntellectuelle
- intelectuelle
- intelelctuelle
- intellcetuelle
- intellecctuelle
- intellecteulle
- intellecttuelle
- intellectuele
- intellectuelel
- intellectulele
- intellecutelle
- intelletcuelle
- intlelectuelle
- inttellectuelle
- itnellectuelle
- nitellectuelle
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of intellectuelle - 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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Similar French words by spelling shape
Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "intellectuelle", not the corpus desk frequency band.
Same letter count
Frequency-ranked French headwords with 14 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (17 here; floor ≥5).