intenable
\ɛ̃.tə.nabl\
The verdict
“intenable” has 13 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #23,906. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #23,906
- frequency rank, French
- 3,561
- “I” headwords
- 13
- tracked misspellings
- 2
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Que l’on ne peut tenir.
Corpus desk
Index FR-intenable · intenable · French
intenable · rank #23,906 · 13 variants · 2 confusables
- FREQ-MID #23,906
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-LOW 2 pairs
- VAR-HIGH 13 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,561
- PHOTO-FINISH insolent
Nearest frequency peer: insolent (-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 « intenable »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- infectieuses
infectieuses
76,098 corpus weight
- initiateur
initiateur
76,097 corpus weight
- insolent
insolent
76,096 corpus weight
- intenable
intenable
76,095 corpus weight
- interessant
interessant
76,094 corpus weight
- Interpol
Interpol
76,093 corpus weight
What this shows « intenable » siège parmi ces pairs FrequencyWords; la profondeur des fautes est suivie à part dans le graphique d'édition.
Visual similarity to commonly confused words
How many letter changes separate each confused pair (Levenshtein distance, normalized).
Source: PlainSpell confusable corpus (Wiktionary, CC BY-SA).
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | intenable |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | \ɛ̃.tə.nabl\ |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #23,906 |
| Misspellings tracked | 13 |
| Confusable pairs | 2 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « intenable »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 13 spelling variants around intenable (IPA \ɛ̃.tə.nabl\), anadjective. Corpus frequency is #23,906 among 3,561 “I” headwords. Wiktionary lists 2 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 13 likely wrong-spelling variants for intenable, with forms such as "inetnable", "inntenable", and "inteanble". 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 2 confusable-pair relationships, "ingérable", "indéniable", since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
No borrowing history is documented for this entry, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. The correct French form is intenable, spelled I-N-T-E-N-A-B-L-E.
Definition
- 1Que l’on ne peut tenir.
- 2Où l’on ne peut se maintenir.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how intenable appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Promesse intenable.
— C’est vrai, vous autres catholiques, vous n’aimez pas les positions intenables. Vous avez l’âme habituée au confort. — Je ne trouve pas, dit Pierson avec tout juste un peu de sécheresse dans la voix, le catholicisme exige beaucoup. — Non, il n’exige pas beaucoup par rapport au repos qu’il donne. C’est merveilleux, le repos qu’il donne.
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- inetnable
- inntenable
- inteanble
- intenabble
- intenabel
- intenablle
- intenalbe
- intenbale
- intennable
- intneable
- inttenable
- itnenable
- nitenable
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of intenable - expressed in single-character edits (insert, delete, or swap one letter). Bigger bars stand out at a glance; a one-edit slip is the hardest to catch.
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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Similar French words by spelling shape
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Same letter count
Frequency-ranked French headwords with 9 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
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