intellectuels
\ɛ̃.te.lɛk.tɥɛl\
The verdict
“intellectuels” has 18 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #7,198. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #7,198
- frequency rank, French
- 3,561
- “I” headwords
- 18
- tracked misspellings
- 3
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Masculin pluriel de intellectuel.
Corpus desk
Index FR-intellectuels · intellectuels · French
intellectuels · rank #7,198 · 18 variants · 3 confusables
- FREQ-COMMON #7,198
- LEN-MEGA 13 letters
- VOW-5 5 vowels
- CONFUS-LOW 3 pairs
- VAR-HIGH 18 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,561
- PHOTO-FINISH instinct
Nearest frequency peer: instinct (-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 « intellectuels »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- implication
implication
92,806 corpus weight
- instances
instances
92,805 corpus weight
- instinct
instinct
92,804 corpus weight
- intellectue…
intellectuels
92,803 corpus weight
- intégrale
intégrale
92,802 corpus weight
- irais
irais
92,801 corpus weight
What this shows « intellectuels » 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 | intellectuels |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | \ɛ̃.te.lɛk.tɥɛl\ |
| Letters | 13 |
| Frequency rank | #7,198 |
| Misspellings tracked | 18 |
| Confusable pairs | 3 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « intellectuels »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 18 spelling variants around intellectuels (IPA \ɛ̃.te.lɛk.tɥɛl\), anadjective. Corpus frequency is #7,198 among 3,561 “I” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Masculin pluriel de intellectuel.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 18 likely wrong-spelling variants for intellectuels, with forms such as "inetllectuels", "inntellectuels", and "intelectuels". 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, "intellectuel", "intellectuelle", "intellectuelles", where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, 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 intellectuels, spelled I-N-T-E-L-L-E-C-T-U-E-L-S.
Definition
- 1Masculin pluriel de intellectuel.
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- inetllectuels
- inntellectuels
- intelectuels
- intelelctuels
- intellcetuels
- intellecctuels
- intellecteuls
- intellecttuels
- intellectuells
- intellectuelss
- intellectuesl
- intellectules
- intellecutels
- intelletcuels
- intlelectuels
- inttellectuels
- itnellectuels
- nitellectuels
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of intellectuels - 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
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Same letter count
Frequency-ranked French headwords with 13 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (18 here; floor ≥5).