intendant
\ɛ̃.tɑ̃.dɑ̃\
The verdict
“intendant” has 14 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #16,918. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #16,918
- frequency rank, French
- 3,561
- “I” headwords
- 14
- tracked misspellings
- 3
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - 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.
Corpus desk
Index FR-intendant · intendant · French
intendant · rank #16,918 · 14 variants · 3 confusables
- FREQ-MID #16,918
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-LOW 3 pairs
- VAR-HIGH 14 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,561
- PHOTO-FINISH insistant
Nearest frequency peer: insistant (-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 « intendant »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- innovantes
innovantes
83,086 corpus weight
- insistant
insistant
83,084 corpus weight
- intendant
intendant
83,083 corpus weight
- internaute
internaute
83,082 corpus weight
- intervalles
intervalles
83,081 corpus weight
- into
into
83,080 corpus weight
What this shows « intendant » 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 | 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) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « intendant »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 14 spelling variants around intendant (IPA \ɛ̃.tɑ̃.dɑ̃\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #16,918 among 3,561 “I” headwords. Wiktionary lists 3 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 14 likely wrong-spelling variants for intendant, with forms such as "inetndant", "inntendant", and "intednant". Each variant is a distinct typo pattern an edit-distance generator flags, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution. It also participates in 3 confusable-pair relationships, "inventant", "intégrant", "intendance", a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.
No borrowing history is documented for this entry, so any spelling logic here comes from how the word's sounds map to letters, not a documented origin story. The correct French form is intendant, spelled I-N-T-E-N-D-A-N-T.
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.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how intendant appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Tout son être se révoltait à la pensée d'épouser un de […] ces intendants soupçonneux et méprisants qui venaient parfois rendre visite à son grand-père et la soupesaient des yeux, comme si elle eût été un animal à vendre.
Car, ajouta-t-il, étant venu à Paris pour faire fortune, il est impossible que je ne devienne pas un riche seigneur, et alors tu seras mon intendant général.
Synonyms
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- inetndant
- inntendant
- intednant
- intenadnt
- intendannt
- intendantt
- intendatn
- intenddant
- intendnat
- intenndant
- intnedant
- inttendant
- itnendant
- nitendant
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of intendant - counted as single-character edits (an insertion, a deletion, or a substituted letter). The larger the bar, the easier the typo is to spot; one-edit slips are the ones that sneak past readers.
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
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (14 here; floor ≥5).