intelligent

/\ɛ̃.te.li.ʒɑ̃\/ adj

Letters

11 characters

Frequency Rank

#3,463

in French word usage

Misspellings

15

tracked variants

Confusables

4

similar word pairs

intelligent is anFrenchadj. It means: Qui est pourvu de la faculté de comprendre, qui est capable de concevoir et de raisonner. Pronounced \ɛ̃.te.li.ʒɑ̃\. It ranks #3,463 in French word frequency. Often confused with intelligente and intelligents.

Key facts for intelligent
PropertyValue
Headwordintelligent
LanguageFrench
Part of speechAdj
IPA\ɛ̃.te.li.ʒɑ̃\
Letters11
Frequency rank#3,463
Misspellings tracked15
Confusable pairs4
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Frequency rank visualization

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

Source: Wordfreq corpus

Spelling & Dictionary Insight

The French entry for intelligent is 11 letters long, classified as anadj, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \ɛ̃.te.li.ʒɑ̃\. Corpus data places it at rank #3,463 in overall French word frequency, indicating it appears regularly in written and spoken text.Wiktionary records 5 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.

Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 15 documented wrong-spelling variants for intelligent, with forms such as "inetlligent", "inntelligent", and "inteligent". 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 4 confusable-pair relationships, "intelligente", "intelligents", "intelligentes", 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 intelligent, spelled I-N-T-E-L-L-I-G-E-N-T, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.

Definition

  1. 1
    Qui est pourvu de la faculté de comprendre, qui est capable de concevoir et de raisonner.
  2. 2
    Qui a beaucoup d’intelligence ; qui conçoit facilement.
  3. 3
    Qui exprime de l’intelligence.
  4. 4
    Qui a beaucoup d’habileté, d’adresse.
  5. 5
    Connecté.

Synonyms

This word in other languages

Common misspellings

Also misspelled as: inetlligent,inntelligent,inteligent,intelilgent,intellgient,intelliegnt,intelligennt,intelligentt,intelligetn,intelliggent,intellignet,intleligent,inttelligent,itnelligent,nitelligent

Misspelling Pattern Breakdown

Relative frequency of common misspelling types for intelligent

Misspelling Variants of "intelligent"

inetlligent11inntelligent12inteligent10intelilgent11intellgient11intelliegnt11intelligennt12intelligentt12
Misspelling Variants of "intelligent"

Frequency rank: #3,463 in French

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "intelligent"?
"intelligent" is spelled I-N-T-E-L-L-I-G-E-N-T. The IPA pronunciation is \ɛ̃.te.li.ʒɑ̃\.
What does "intelligent" mean?
As an adj, "intelligent" means: Qui est pourvu de la faculté de comprendre, qui est capable de concevoir et de raisonner.
What words are commonly confused with "intelligent"?
"intelligent" is commonly confused with "intelligente", "intelligents", "intelligentes". These words look or sound similar but have different meanings. PlainSpell provides detailed comparisons for each pair.
How do you pronounce "intelligent"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "intelligent" is \ɛ̃.te.li.ʒɑ̃\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "intelligent" come from?
"intelligent" 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.