intelligence
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.
| 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) |
Frequency rank visualization
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
- 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.
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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"
Frequency rank: #2,721 in French
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