intendante
\ɛ̃.tɑ̃.dɑ̃t\
The verdict
“intendante” is uncommon French (frequency #92,865 among 3,561 “I” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #92,865
- frequency rank, French
- 3,561
- “I” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Épouse d’un intendant de province.
Corpus desk
Index FR-intendante · intendante · French
intendante · rank #92,865 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #92,865
- LEN-MEGA 10 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,561
- PHOTO-FINISH inspectent
Nearest frequency peer: inspectent (-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 « intendante »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- inexprimable
inexprimable
7,141 corpus weight
- inhabités
inhabités
7,140 corpus weight
- inspectent
inspectent
7,137 corpus weight
- intendante
intendante
7,136 corpus weight
- intersectio…
intersectionnalité
7,134 corpus weight
- inventives
inventives
7,132 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « intendante » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | intendante |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ɛ̃.tɑ̃.dɑ̃t\ |
| Letters | 10 |
| Frequency rank | #92,865 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « intendante » en français
Rare enough to double-check
intendante is uncommon French at frequency #92,865 among 3,561 “I” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \ɛ̃.tɑ̃.dɑ̃t\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 3 senses are on record.
No generated misspelling entries exist for intendante in our index, typically a sign the spelling maps closely to how the word sounds. Our dataset records no confusable match here, 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, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct French form is intendante, spelled I-N-T-E-N-D-A-N-T-E.
Definition
- 1Épouse d’un intendant de province.
- 2Titre que portait la supérieure dans certains ordres religieux.
- 3Celle qui est chargée de régir les biens, de conduire et de surveiller la maison d’un prince, d’un grand seigneur, d’un riche particulier.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how intendante appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Je vous avoue, madame, que j’ai été touché de voir le frère de madame l’intendante de Paris arriver chez moi à pied, sans domestique, et vêtu d’une manière indigne de sa condition.
Enfin, parmi les femmes de détenteurs d’offices de l’ordre moyen, un grand nombre exercent une grande influence sur leurs maris. Elles se montrent orgueilleuses de leur rang et de leur privilège autant que les femmes des nobles et des financiers. La baillive, l’élue, la lieutenante de judicature sont des personnages importants qui jouissent de la considér…
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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