intensif
\ɛ̃.tɑ̃.sif\
The verdict
“intensif” has 12 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #16,396. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #16,396
- frequency rank, French
- 3,561
- “I” headwords
- 12
- tracked misspellings
- 7
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - À quoi on fait dépasser la mesure ordinaire.
Corpus desk
Index FR-intensif · intensif · French
intensif · rank #16,396 · 12 variants · 7 confusables
- FREQ-MID #16,396
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 7 pairs
- VAR-MID 12 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,561
- PHOTO-FINISH institutionne…
Nearest frequency peer: institutionnels (-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 « intensif »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- ingérence
ingérence
83,608 corpus weight
- inspirées
inspirées
83,607 corpus weight
- institution…
institutionnels
83,606 corpus weight
- intensif
intensif
83,605 corpus weight
- irruption
irruption
83,603 corpus weight
- islamophobie
islamophobie
83,602 corpus weight
What this shows « intensif » 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 | intensif |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | \ɛ̃.tɑ̃.sif\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #16,396 |
| Misspellings tracked | 12 |
| Confusable pairs | 7 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « intensif »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 12 spelling variants around intensif (IPA \ɛ̃.tɑ̃.sif\), anadjective. Corpus frequency is #16,396 among 3,561 “I” headwords. Wiktionary lists 3 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 12 likely wrong-spelling variants for intensif, with forms such as "inetnsif", "inntensif", and "intenisf". Each of these forms differs from the correct spelling by one small edit: a doubled letter, a dropped silent letter, or a substituted vowel. It also participates in 7 confusable-pair relationships, "inventif", "intensité", "intensive", and more, 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 any spelling logic here comes from how the word's sounds map to letters, not a documented origin story. The correct French form is intensif, spelled I-N-T-E-N-S-I-F.
Definition
- 1À quoi on fait dépasser la mesure ordinaire.
- 2Qui a la plénitude de l’être.
- 3Se dit d’une grandeur physique indépendante de la quantité de matière présente dans l’échantillon, et mathématiquement représentée par une variable ordinale.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how intensif appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
[…], M. Sandrique alla se fixer à Saint-Quentin-le-Petit (Ardennes), où il s'adonna à la mise en valeur d'une propriété de près de 400 hectares, appliquant des méthodes scientifiques et des procédés de culture intensive rationnelle, dont les résultats ont servi de modèle dans toute la région.
Notons en passant que le pâturage intensif amène une réduction notable et même la disparition de certaines Graminées (Koeleria, Festuca).
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- inetnsif
- inntensif
- intenisf
- intennsif
- intensfi
- intensiff
- intenssif
- intesnif
- intnesif
- inttensif
- itnensif
- nitensif
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of intensif - 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 8 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
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Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (12 here; floor ≥5).