intensive
\ɛ̃.tɑ̃.siv\
The verdict
“intensive” has 13 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #15,417. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #15,417
- frequency rank, French
- 3,561
- “I” headwords
- 13
- tracked misspellings
- 7
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Féminin singulier de intensif.
Corpus desk
Index FR-intensive · intensive · French
intensive · rank #15,417 · 13 variants · 7 confusables
- FREQ-MID #15,417
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 7 pairs
- VAR-HIGH 13 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,561
- PHOTO-FINISH intelligentes
Nearest frequency peer: intelligentes (-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 « intensive »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- indépendant…
indépendantistes
84,587 corpus weight
- infographie
infographie
84,586 corpus weight
- intelligent…
intelligentes
84,585 corpus weight
- intensive
intensive
84,584 corpus weight
- jouissance
jouissance
84,583 corpus weight
- Jérémie
Jérémie
84,582 corpus weight
What this shows « intensive » 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 | intensive |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | \ɛ̃.tɑ̃.siv\ |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #15,417 |
| Misspellings tracked | 13 |
| Confusable pairs | 7 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « intensive »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 13 spelling variants around intensive (IPA \ɛ̃.tɑ̃.siv\), anadjective. Corpus frequency is #15,417 among 3,561 “I” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Féminin singulier de intensif.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 13 likely wrong-spelling variants for intensive, with forms such as "inetnsive", "inntensive", and "intenisve". 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, "inventive", "intensives", "intense", 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, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct French form is intensive, spelled I-N-T-E-N-S-I-V-E.
Definition
- 1Féminin singulier de intensif.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how intensive appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Après une exploitation intensive depuis la fin des années 1700, l’otarie à fourrure subantarctique était supposée éteinte sur l’île Amsterdam, dans les terres australes françaises.
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- inetnsive
- inntensive
- intenisve
- intennsive
- intensiev
- intensivve
- intenssive
- intensvie
- intesnive
- intnesive
- inttensive
- itnensive
- nitensive
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of intensive - expressed in single-character edits (insert, delete, or swap one letter). Bigger bars stand out at a glance; a one-edit slip is the hardest to catch.
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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Same letter count
Frequency-ranked French headwords with 9 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
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Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (13 here; floor ≥5).