intelligibilité
\ɛ̃.te.li.ʒi.bi.li.te\
The verdict
“intelligibilité” is uncommon French (frequency #62,373 among 3,561 “I” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #62,373
- frequency rank, French
- 3,561
- “I” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Degré où une chose ou une idée est intelligible.
Corpus desk
Index FR-intelligibilite · intelligibilité · French
intelligibilité · rank #62,373 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #62,373
- LEN-MEGA 15 letters
- VOW-7 7 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,561
- PHOTO-FINISH intellectuali…
Nearest frequency peer: intellectualisme (-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.
Rangs de longue queue près de « intelligibilité »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- instituées
instituées
37,631 corpus weight
- instruites
instruites
37,630 corpus weight
- intellectua…
intellectualisme
37,629 corpus weight
- intelligibi…
intelligibilité
37,628 corpus weight
- interesting
interesting
37,627 corpus weight
- interrogate…
interrogateur
37,626 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « intelligibilité » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | intelligibilité |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ɛ̃.te.li.ʒi.bi.li.te\ |
| Letters | 15 |
| Frequency rank | #62,373 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « intelligibilité » en français
Rare enough to double-check
intelligibilité is uncommon French at frequency #62,373 among 3,561 “I” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \ɛ̃.te.li.ʒi.bi.li.te\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Degré où une chose ou une idée est intelligible.".
We couldn't generate a plausible misspelling set for intelligibilité, suggesting the orthography follows predictable French patterns. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, suggesting its spelling stands apart enough that readers rarely confuse it with something else.
This entry's etymology isn't recorded, so its spelling is easiest explained by how it's pronounced rather than where it came from. The correct French form is intelligibilité, spelled I-N-T-E-L-L-I-G-I-B-I-L-I-T-É.
Definition
- 1Degré où une chose ou une idée est intelligible.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how intelligibilité appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Porter une théorie à son plus haut degré d’intelligibilité.
Étant donné le parti que j’avais pris d’une absence totale de commentaire, c’est la construction du film qui est la clé et le moteur de son intelligibilité, qui permet au récit d’avancer et d’être compréhensible pour le spectateur.
Antonyms
This word in other languages
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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