intensifier
Letters
11 characters
Frequency Rank
#26,765
in French word usage
Misspellings
16
tracked variants
Confusables
2
similar word pairs
intensifier is aFrenchverb. It means: Rendre plus intense. Pronounced \ɛ̃.tɑ̃.si.fje\. Often confused with intensifie and intensifient.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | intensifier |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \ɛ̃.tɑ̃.si.fje\ |
| Letters | 11 |
| Frequency rank | #26,765 |
| Misspellings tracked | 16 |
| Confusable pairs | 2 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for intensifier is 11 letters long, classified as averb, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \ɛ̃.tɑ̃.si.fje\. Corpus data places it at rank #26,765 in overall French word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it.The dominant gloss from Wiktionary reads: "Rendre plus intense.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 16 likely wrong-spelling variants for intensifier, with forms such as "inetnsifier", "inntensifier", and "intenisfier". 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 2 confusable-pair relationships, "intensifie", "intensifient", 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 intensifier, spelled I-N-T-E-N-S-I-F-I-E-R, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Rendre plus intense.
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Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: inetnsifier,inntensifier,intenisfier,intennsifier,intensfiier,intensifeir,intensiffier,intensifierr,intensifire,intensiifer,intenssifier,intesnifier,intnesifier,inttensifier,itnensifier,nitensifier
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
Relative frequency of common misspelling types for intensifier
Misspelling Variants of "intensifier"
Frequency rank: #26,765 in French
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