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intensité

French, noun/ɛ̃.tɑ̃.si.te/

intensité is spelled I-N-T-E-N-S-I-T-É (9 letters) and appears 14 times per million words in written French, the 5,025th most frequent French word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Intensité is a French feminine noun meaning “intensity” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Haut niveau ou degré ; propriété de ce qui est intense”.

What does intensité mean in English?

noun

  1. 1

    feminineintensity

Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).

How French dictionaries define it

noun: 1. Haut niveau ou degré ; propriété de ce qui est intense. 2. Puissance de ce qui est exprimé ou ressenti. 3. Pureté et éclat d’une couleur. 4. Intensité [de courant] électrique, quantité de courant électrique qui traverse un conducteur.

The definition in the French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire), in French.

Source: French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire), dump of September 1, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org.

Forms of intensité

  • intensités plural

Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).

How do you pronounce intensité?

  • /ɛ̃.tɑ̃.si.te/
  • \ɛ̃.tɑ̃.si.te\
  • [ɛ̃.tɑ̃.si.te]

Sources: English Wiktionary, French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.

English words that translate to intensité

Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.

How common is intensité in French?

intensité appears 14 times per million words in written French.

Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).

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