intendants
\ɛ̃.tɑ̃.dɑ̃\
The verdict
“intendants” is uncommon French (frequency #50,303 among 3,561 “I” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #50,303
- frequency rank, French
- 3,561
- “I” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Pluriel de intendant.
Corpus desk
Index FR-intendants · intendants · French
intendants · rank #50,303 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #50,303
- LEN-MEGA 10 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,561
- PHOTO-FINISH intensités
Nearest frequency peer: intensités (+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 « intendants »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- insondable
insondable
49,701 corpus weight
- insuccès
insuccès
49,700 corpus weight
- intendants
intendants
49,698 corpus weight
- intensités
intensités
49,697 corpus weight
- investisse
investisse
49,696 corpus weight
- IPC
IPC
49,695 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « intendants » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | intendants |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ɛ̃.tɑ̃.dɑ̃\ |
| Letters | 10 |
| Frequency rank | #50,303 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « intendants » en français
Rare enough to double-check
intendants is uncommon French at frequency #50,303 among 3,561 “I” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \ɛ̃.tɑ̃.dɑ̃\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Pluriel de intendant.".
intendants has no tracked misspelling variants, which points to an orthography that plays by predictable French rules. Our dataset records no confusable match here, a sign it's visually distinctive enough not to be mixed up with another word.
This entry carries no recorded etymology, 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 intendants, spelled I-N-T-E-N-D-A-N-T-S.
Definition
- 1Pluriel de intendant.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how intendants appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Enfin, tous les intendants de Bourgogne passèrent par la fonction obligée de maître des requêtes.
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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