intensité

/\ɛ̃.tɑ̃.si.te\/ noun

Letters

9 characters

Frequency Rank

#5,045

in French word usage

Misspellings

14

tracked variants

Confusables

9

similar word pairs

intensité is aFrenchnoun. It means: Haut niveau ou degré ; propriété de ce qui est intense. Pronounced \ɛ̃.tɑ̃.si.te\. It ranks #5,045 in French word frequency. Often confused with interdite and intensive.

Key facts for intensité
PropertyValue
Headwordintensité
LanguageFrench
Part of speechNoun
IPA\ɛ̃.tɑ̃.si.te\
Letters9
Frequency rank#5,045
Misspellings tracked14
Confusable pairs9
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Frequency rank visualization

Position of intensité in French word frequency (lower rank = more common)

Source: Wordfreq corpus

Spelling & Dictionary Insight

The French entry for intensité is 9 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \ɛ̃.tɑ̃.si.te\. Corpus data places it at rank #5,045 in overall French word frequency, indicating it appears regularly in written and spoken text.Wiktionary records 8 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.

Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 14 documented wrong-spelling variants for intensité, with forms such as "inetnsité", "inntensité", and "intenisté". Each variant represents a distinct typo pattern that appears often enough in corpora to be worth flagging, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution.It also participates in 9 confusable-pair relationships, "interdite", "intensive", "intensives", 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 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 intensité, spelled I-N-T-E-N-S-I-T-É, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.

Definition

  1. 1
    Haut niveau ou degré ; propriété de ce qui est intense.
  2. 2
    Puissance de ce qui est exprimé ou ressenti.
  3. 3
    Pureté et éclat d’une couleur.
  4. 4
    Intensité [de courant] électrique, quantité de courant électrique qui traverse un conducteur.
  5. 5
    Intensité acoustique, densité de puissance sonore par unité de surface.
  6. 6
    Intensité lumineuse : densité par unité d’angle solide du flux lumineux émis par une source lumineuse, dans une direction donnée.
  7. 7
    Intensité énergétique : densité de puissance par unité d’angle solide émis par une source de rayonnement électromagnétique, dans une direction donnée (équivalent en radiométrie de l’intensité lumineuse).
  8. 8
    Intensité énergétique : rapport entre l’énergie consommée et la valeur économique produite, pour un produit donné, une industrie, une entreprise, voire globalement pour l’économie d’un pays.

Synonyms

This word in other languages

Common misspellings

Also misspelled as: inetnsité,inntensité,intenisté,intennsité,intensite,intensitté,intensiét,intenssité,intenstié,intesnité,intnesité,inttensité,itnensité,nitensité

Misspelling Pattern Breakdown

Relative frequency of common misspelling types for intensité

Misspelling Variants of "intensité"

inetnsité9inntensité10intenisté9intennsité10intensite9intensitté10intensiét9intenssité10
Misspelling Variants of "intensité"

Frequency rank: #5,045 in French

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "intensité"?
"intensité" is spelled I-N-T-E-N-S-I-T-É. The IPA pronunciation is \ɛ̃.tɑ̃.si.te\.
What does "intensité" mean?
As a noun, "intensité" means: Haut niveau ou degré ; propriété de ce qui est intense.
What words are commonly confused with "intensité"?
"intensité" is commonly confused with "interdite", "intensive", "intensives". These words look or sound similar but have different meanings. PlainSpell provides detailed comparisons for each pair.
How do you pronounce "intensité"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "intensité" is \ɛ̃.tɑ̃.si.te\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "intensité" come from?
"intensité" is a French word. PlainSpell covers definitions, pronunciations, and spelling data across English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, and German.
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Data Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Frequency data from Wordfreq. Misspellings derived from Hunspell dictionaries.