intercalaire
\ɛ̃.tɛʁ.ka.lɛʁ\
The verdict
“intercalaire” is uncommon French (frequency #69,164 among 3,561 “I” headwords), classed as an adjective. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #69,164
- frequency rank, French
- 3,561
- “I” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Qui est intercalé.
Corpus desk
Index FR-intercalaire · intercalaire · French
intercalaire · rank #69,164 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #69,164
- LEN-MEGA 12 letters
- VOW-6 6 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,561
- PHOTO-FINISH instrumentaux
Nearest frequency peer: instrumentaux (-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.
Rangs de longue queue près de « intercalaire »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- inserts
inserts
30,840 corpus weight
- instrumenta…
instrumentaux
30,838 corpus weight
- intercalaire
intercalaire
30,837 corpus weight
- intercaler
intercaler
30,836 corpus weight
- intervenons
intervenons
30,835 corpus weight
- intimistes
intimistes
30,834 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « intercalaire » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | intercalaire |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | \ɛ̃.tɛʁ.ka.lɛʁ\ |
| Letters | 12 |
| Frequency rank | #69,164 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « intercalaire » en français
Rare enough to double-check
intercalaire is uncommon French at frequency #69,164 among 3,561 “I” headwords, classed as anadjective, transcribed \ɛ̃.tɛʁ.ka.lɛʁ\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Qui est intercalé.".
intercalaire has no tracked misspelling variants, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
This entry carries no recorded etymology, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct French form is intercalaire, spelled I-N-T-E-R-C-A-L-A-I-R-E.
Definition
- 1Qui est intercalé.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how intercalaire appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Jusqu'à présent, ces ajustements ont consisté à ajouter une seconde intercalaire à l'année fin juin ou décembre, permettant d’ajuster le temps astronomique et le temps atomique.
Jour intercalaire, jour que l’on ajoute au mois de février dans l’année bissextile.
This word in other languages
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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