intempestive
\ɛ̃.tɑ̃.pɛs.tiv\
The verdict
“intempestive” is uncommon French (frequency #60,108 among 3,561 “I” headwords), classed as an adjective. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #60,108
- frequency rank, French
- 3,561
- “I” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Féminin singulier de intempestif.
Corpus desk
Index FR-intempestive · intempestive · French
intempestive · rank #60,108 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #60,108
- LEN-MEGA 12 letters
- VOW-5 5 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,561
- PHOTO-FINISH insuffle
Nearest frequency peer: insuffle (-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 « intempestive »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- insistons
insistons
39,896 corpus weight
- instituto
instituto
39,895 corpus weight
- insuffle
insuffle
39,894 corpus weight
- intempestive
intempestive
39,893 corpus weight
- intercalair…
intercalaires
39,892 corpus weight
- interressant
interressant
39,891 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « intempestive » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | intempestive |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | \ɛ̃.tɑ̃.pɛs.tiv\ |
| Letters | 12 |
| Frequency rank | #60,108 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « intempestive » en français
Rare enough to double-check
intempestive is uncommon French at frequency #60,108 among 3,561 “I” headwords, classed as anadjective, transcribed \ɛ̃.tɑ̃.pɛs.tiv\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Féminin singulier de intempestif.".
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for intempestive, a sign its spelling follows regular French conventions. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, since its spelling is unusual enough that it doesn't cluster with a lookalike.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, so its spelling pattern is best understood through pronunciation rather than a traceable origin. The correct French form is intempestive, spelled I-N-T-E-M-P-E-S-T-I-V-E.
Definition
- 1Féminin singulier de intempestif.
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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