intelligence

\ɛ̃.te.li.ʒɑ̃s\

/\ɛ̃.te.li.ʒɑ̃s\/ noun

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The verdict

“intelligence” has 16 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #2,721. The variants make it a useful spelling check.

#2,721
frequency rank, French
3,561
“I” headwords
16
tracked misspellings
5
confusable pairs

According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Faculté de comprendre, de ne pas se méprendre sur le sens des mots, la nature des choses et la signification des faits.

Corpus desk

Index FR-intelligence · intelligence · French

intelligence · rank #2,721 · 16 variants · 5 confusables

  • FREQ-COMMON #2,721
  • LEN-MEGA 12 letters
  • VOW-5 5 vowels
  • CONFUS-MID 5 pairs
  • VAR-HIGH 16 variants
  • BOOK-MID 3,561
  • PHOTO-FINISH individu

Nearest frequency peer: individu (-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 « intelligence »

Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin

corpus weight

What this shows « intelligence » siège parmi ces pairs FrequencyWords; la profondeur des fautes est suivie à part dans le graphique d'édition.

Source FrequencyWords open word-frequency list As of September 3, 2026

Visual similarity to commonly confused words

How many letter changes separate each confused pair (Levenshtein distance, normalized).

intelligence vs intelligent
83% similar
intelligence vs intelligente
92% similar
intelligence vs intelligents
83% similar

Source: PlainSpell confusable corpus (Wiktionary, CC BY-SA).

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)

Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « intelligence »

Cette échelle va du noyau du français courant (gauche) jusqu'à la traîne des formes rares (droite).intelligencese place ici:

#1#100#1K#10K#100K
← used constantlyrarely used →

Les tics avancent en logarithme; chacun est de l'ordre de dix fois plus rare. Dans la même bande de rareté figurent « individu » (#2,720), « Loire » (#2,722), « go » (#2,718). Parmi 3,561 lemmes en « I », « intelligence » est au #2,721. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

A misspelling magnet

The generator records 16 spelling variants around intelligence (IPA \ɛ̃.te.li.ʒɑ̃s\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #2,721 among 3,561 “I” headwords. Wiktionary lists 11 senses, so context still picks the gloss.

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

  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.

Recorded use

Wiktionary examples

These source excerpts show how intelligence appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.

  1. Cependant les femmes de Lima gouvernent les hommes parce qu’elles leur sont bien supérieures en intelligence et en force morale.
  2. Rien ne surexcite l’intelligence, je vous assure, comme de tuer un camarade qui possède trente billets de mille francs.

This word in other languages

intelligence(English)inteligencia(Español)Intelligenz(Deutsch)inteligência(Português)

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.

inetlligence2inntelligence1inteligence1intelilgence2intellgience2intelliegnce2intelligecne2intelligencce1
Edit distance from "intelligence"

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.

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's reference spans five languages -- English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, and German -- with definitions, pronunciations, and spelling data for each.
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Similar French words by spelling shape

Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "intelligence", not the corpus desk frequency band.

Same letter count

Frequency-ranked French headwords with 12 letters (nearest by frequency rank).

propositions#2,732autorisation#2,704utilisateurs#2,746entraînement#2,673

Similar misspelling depth

Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (16 here; floor ≥5).

partenaires16 variantsfabrication16 variantsdéterminer16 variantsfrontières16 variants

Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org) Structured Wiktionary extract

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list