intentions
\ɛ̃.tɑ̃.sjɔ̃\
The verdict
“intentions” has 15 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #4,340. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #4,340
- frequency rank, French
- 3,561
- “I” headwords
- 15
- tracked misspellings
- 9
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Pluriel de intention.
Corpus desk
Index FR-intentions · intentions · French
intentions · rank #4,340 · 15 variants · 9 confusables
- FREQ-COMMON #4,340
- LEN-MEGA 10 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 9 pairs
- VAR-HIGH 15 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,561
- PHOTO-FINISH inspecteur
Nearest frequency peer: inspecteur (-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 « intentions »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- gratuite
gratuite
95,664 corpus weight
- inférieure
inférieure
95,663 corpus weight
- inspecteur
inspecteur
95,662 corpus weight
- intentions
intentions
95,661 corpus weight
- Irlande
Irlande
95,660 corpus weight
- italiens
italiens
95,659 corpus weight
What this shows « intentions » 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 | intentions |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ɛ̃.tɑ̃.sjɔ̃\ |
| Letters | 10 |
| Frequency rank | #4,340 |
| Misspellings tracked | 15 |
| Confusable pairs | 9 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « intentions »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 15 spelling variants around intentions (IPA \ɛ̃.tɑ̃.sjɔ̃\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #4,340 among 3,561 “I” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Pluriel de intention.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 15 likely wrong-spelling variants for intentions, with forms such as "inetntions", "inntentions", and "intenitons". 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 9 confusable-pair relationships, "invention", "intestins", "inventions", 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. The correct French form is intentions, spelled I-N-T-E-N-T-I-O-N-S.
Definition
- 1Pluriel de intention.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how intentions appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Nos intentions sont que nous intentions ce procès.
On peut aisément juger que n’ignorant pas ce qui devoit s’y passer, il ne prenoit pas plaisir à voir que la Réformation de l’Église, qui avait été le principal but du concile, aboutît à si peu de chose, et qu'on l’eût empêchée en prématurant l’élection du pape, contre ses intentions.
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- inetntions
- inntentions
- intenitons
- intenntions
- intentinos
- intentionns
- intentionss
- intentiosn
- intentoins
- intenttions
- intetnions
- intnetions
- inttentions
- itnentions
- nitentions
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of intentions - 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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Similar French words by spelling shape
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Same letter count
Frequency-ranked French headwords with 10 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (15 here; floor ≥5).