intendant
Letters
9 characters
Frequency Rank
#16,918
in French word usage
Misspellings
14
tracked variants
Confusables
3
similar word pairs
intendant is aFrenchnoun. It means: Celui qui est chargé de régir les biens, de conduire et de surveiller la maison d’un prince, d’un grand seigneur, d’un riche particulier. Pronounced \ɛ̃.tɑ̃.dɑ̃\. Often confused with inventant and intégrant.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | intendant |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ɛ̃.tɑ̃.dɑ̃\ |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #16,918 |
| Misspellings tracked | 14 |
| Confusable pairs | 3 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for intendant is 9 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \ɛ̃.tɑ̃.dɑ̃\. Corpus data places it at rank #16,918 in overall French word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it.Wiktionary records 3 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 14 documented wrong-spelling variants for intendant, with forms such as "inetndant", "inntendant", and "intednant". 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 3 confusable-pair relationships, "inventant", "intégrant", "intendance", 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 intendant, spelled I-N-T-E-N-D-A-N-T, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Celui qui est chargé de régir les biens, de conduire et de surveiller la maison d’un prince, d’un grand seigneur, d’un riche particulier.
- 2Officier nommé à la tête de l’administration d’une province ou d’une colonie, ou qui avait des attributions relatives à la justice et aux finances.
- 3Fonctionnaire qui surveillait et dirigeait un service public ou un grand établissement.
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Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: inetndant,inntendant,intednant,intenadnt,intendannt,intendantt,intendatn,intenddant,intendnat,intenndant,intnedant,inttendant,itnendant,nitendant
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
Relative frequency of common misspelling types for intendant
Misspelling Variants of "intendant"
Frequency rank: #16,918 in French
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