intelligence

/\ɛ̃.te.li.ʒɑ̃s\/ noun

Letters

12 characters

Frequency Rank

#2,721

in French word usage

Misspellings

16

tracked variants

Confusables

5

similar word pairs

intelligence is aFrenchnoun. It means: Faculté de comprendre, de ne pas se méprendre sur le sens des mots, la nature des choses et la signification des faits. Pronounced \ɛ̃.te.li.ʒɑ̃s\. It ranks #2,721 in French word frequency. Often confused with intelligent and intelligente.

Key facts for intelligence
PropertyValue
Headwordintelligence
LanguageFrench
Part of speechNoun
IPA\ɛ̃.te.li.ʒɑ̃s\
Letters12
Frequency rank#2,721
Misspellings tracked16
Confusable pairs5
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Frequency rank visualization

Position of intelligence in French word frequency (lower rank = more common)

Source: Wordfreq corpus

Spelling & Dictionary Insight

The French entry for intelligence is 12 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \ɛ̃.te.li.ʒɑ̃s\. Corpus data places it at rank #2,721 in overall French word frequency, indicating it appears regularly in written and spoken text.Wiktionary records 11 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.

Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 16 documented wrong-spelling variants for intelligence, with forms such as "inetlligence", "inntelligence", and "inteligence". 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 5 confusable-pair relationships, "intelligent", "intelligente", "intelligents", and more, 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 intelligence, spelled I-N-T-E-L-L-I-G-E-N-C-E, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.

Definition

  1. 1
    Faculté de comprendre, de ne pas se méprendre sur le sens des mots, la nature des choses et la signification des faits.
  2. 2
    Activité volontaire et réfléchie de l’être humain s’exerçant d’une façon normale en vue de la connaissance et s’opposant à l’instinct.
  3. 3
    (Sans épithète) Développement des facultés de comprendre et de raisonner au-dessus de la moyenne.
  4. 4
    Connaissance approfondie, compréhension nette et facile.
  5. 5
    Personnage doué d’intelligence.
  6. 6
    Aptitude, capacité particulière, don pour une activité.
  7. 7
    Adresse, habileté, et s’applique surtout au choix des moyens employés pour obtenir un résultat.
  8. 8
    Généralement précédé d’un adjectif (le plus souvent: bonne) Accord, entente, harmonie, union de sentiments.
  9. 9
    Correspondance, communication entre des personnes qui s’entendent l’une avec l’autre ; connivence.
  10. 10
    Ententes, conventions secrètes.
  11. 11
    À Donjons & Dragons, et d’autres jeux de rôle, caractéristique (valeur chiffrée) représentant la capacité de raisonnement et la mémoire d’un personnage.

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Common misspellings

Also misspelled as: inetlligence,inntelligence,inteligence,intelilgence,intellgience,intelliegnce,intelligecne,intelligencce,intelligenec,intelligennce,intelliggence,intellignece,intleligence,inttelligence,itnelligence,nitelligence

Misspelling Pattern Breakdown

Relative frequency of common misspelling types for intelligence

Misspelling Variants of "intelligence"

inetlligence12inntelligence13inteligence11intelilgence12intellgience12intelliegnce12intelligecne12intelligencce13
Misspelling Variants of "intelligence"

Frequency rank: #2,721 in French

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "intelligence"?
"intelligence" is spelled I-N-T-E-L-L-I-G-E-N-C-E. The IPA pronunciation is \ɛ̃.te.li.ʒɑ̃s\.
What does "intelligence" mean?
As a noun, "intelligence" means: Faculté de comprendre, de ne pas se méprendre sur le sens des mots, la nature des choses et la signification des faits.
What words are commonly confused with "intelligence"?
"intelligence" is commonly confused with "intelligent", "intelligente", "intelligents". These words look or sound similar but have different meanings. PlainSpell provides detailed comparisons for each pair.
How do you pronounce "intelligence"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "intelligence" is \ɛ̃.te.li.ʒɑ̃s\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "intelligence" come from?
"intelligence" is a French word. PlainSpell covers definitions, pronunciations, and spelling data across English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, and German.
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Data Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Frequency data from Wordfreq. Misspellings derived from Hunspell dictionaries.