intentionnel
\ɛ̃.tɑ̃.sjɔ.nɛl\
The verdict
“intentionnel” has 16 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #32,863. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #32,863
- frequency rank, French
- 3,561
- “I” headwords
- 16
- tracked misspellings
- 2
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Relatif à l’intention.
Corpus desk
Index FR-intentionnel · intentionnel · French
intentionnel · rank #32,863 · 16 variants · 2 confusables
- FREQ-MID #32,863
- LEN-MEGA 12 letters
- VOW-5 5 vowels
- CONFUS-LOW 2 pairs
- VAR-HIGH 16 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,561
- PHOTO-FINISH institue
Nearest frequency peer: institue (-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 « intentionnel »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- inquiétants
inquiétants
67,140 corpus weight
- institue
institue
67,139 corpus weight
- intentionnel
intentionnel
67,138 corpus weight
- interchange…
interchangeables
67,137 corpus weight
- intonation
intonation
67,136 corpus weight
- irradiation
irradiation
67,135 corpus weight
What this shows « intentionnel » 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 | intentionnel |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | \ɛ̃.tɑ̃.sjɔ.nɛl\ |
| Letters | 12 |
| Frequency rank | #32,863 |
| Misspellings tracked | 16 |
| Confusable pairs | 2 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « intentionnel »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 16 spelling variants around intentionnel (IPA \ɛ̃.tɑ̃.sjɔ.nɛl\), anadjective. Corpus frequency is #32,863 among 3,561 “I” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Relatif à l’intention.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 16 likely wrong-spelling variants for intentionnel, with forms such as "inetntionnel", "inntentionnel", and "intenitonnel". Every one of these variants traces to a single-character edit -- an added or dropped letter, a swapped consonant, or a vowel swap -- the kind of slip a spell-checker is built to catch. It also participates in 2 confusable-pair relationships, "intentionnés", "intentionnelle", since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
This entry's etymology isn't recorded, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct French form is intentionnel, spelled I-N-T-E-N-T-I-O-N-N-E-L.
Definition
- 1Relatif à l’intention.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how intentionnel appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
L’idée d’une sépulture intentionnelle est donc d’emblée refusée, malgré la présence d’une vingtaine de cyprées d’origine méditerranéenne disposées par paire à divers endroits du corps, […].
Travailler auprès d’enfants victimes d’événements traumatiques nous apprend combien les répercussions psychiques sont différentes lorsque les blessures ont été causées de façon intentionnelle, qu’elles ont duré, qu’elles ont été commises par des adultes faisant autorité et censés les protéger.
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- inetntionnel
- inntentionnel
- intenitonnel
- intenntionnel
- intentinonel
- intentionel
- intentionenl
- intentionnell
- intentionnle
- intentoinnel
- intenttionnel
- intetnionnel
- intnetionnel
- inttentionnel
- itnentionnel
- nitentionnel
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of intentionnel - 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 12 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (16 here; floor ≥5).