intelligence
\ɛ̃.te.li.ʒɑ̃s\
The verdict
“intelligence” is a regularly-used French word, ranked #2,721 in French word frequency and used as a noun.
- #2,721
- frequency rank, French
- 12
- letters
- 16
- tracked misspellings
- 5
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - Faculté de comprendre, de ne pas se méprendre sur le sens des mots, la nature des choses et la signification des faits.
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 | intelligence |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ɛ̃.te.li.ʒɑ̃s\ |
| Letters | 12 |
| Frequency rank | #2,721 |
| Misspellings tracked | 16 |
| Confusable pairs | 5 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “intelligence” sits in French frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for intelligence is 12 letters long, classified as a noun, 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 generated misspelling index lists 16 likely wrong-spelling variants for intelligence, with forms such as "inetlligence", "inntelligence", and "inteligence". 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 5 confusable-pair relationships, "intelligent", "intelligente", "intelligents", and more, since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
This entry carries no recorded etymology, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct French form is intelligence, spelled I-N-T-E-L-L-I-G-E-N-C-E.
Definition
- 1Faculté de comprendre, de ne pas se méprendre sur le sens des mots, la nature des choses et la signification des faits.
- 2Activité 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(Sans épithète) Développement des facultés de comprendre et de raisonner au-dessus de la moyenne.
- 4Connaissance approfondie, compréhension nette et facile.
- 5Personnage doué d’intelligence.
- 6Aptitude, capacité particulière, don pour une activité.
- 7Adresse, habileté, et s’applique surtout au choix des moyens employés pour obtenir un résultat.
- 8Généralement précédé d’un adjectif (le plus souvent: bonne) Accord, entente, harmonie, union de sentiments.
- 9Correspondance, communication entre des personnes qui s’entendent l’une avec l’autre ; connivence.
- 10Ententes, conventions secrètes.
- 11À Donjons & Dragons, et d’autres jeux de rôle, caractéristique (valeur chiffrée) représentant la capacité de raisonnement et la mémoire d’un personnage.
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: inetlligence,inntelligence,inteligence,intelilgence,intellgience,intelliegnce,intelligecne,intelligencce,intelligenec,intelligennce,intelliggence,intellignece,intleligence,inttelligence,itnelligence,nitelligence
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of intelligence - measured in single-character edits (insert, delete, or substitute a letter). Larger bars are easier to catch; one-edit slips are the sneakiest.
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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Using “intelligence”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct French spelling is I-N-T-E-L-L-I-G-E-N-C-E - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
- Say it as \ɛ̃.te.li.ʒɑ̃s\ (IPA); tap the speaker on the pronunciation badge to hear it where audio exists.
- Don't mix it up with “intelligent” - see the side-by-side comparison. intelligence vs intelligent
- Browse more French words and confusable pairs in the same reference. French words
Data Source
Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Word ordering uses an open word-frequency list; misspelling variants are generated by edit-distance from the correct headword.