intercale
\ɛ̃.tɛʁ.kal\
The verdict
“intercale” is uncommon French (frequency #74,098 among 3,561 “I” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #74,098
- frequency rank, French
- 3,561
- “I” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Première personne du singulier du présent de l’indicatif de intercaler.
Corpus desk
Index FR-intercale · intercale · French
intercale · rank #74,098 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #74,098
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,561
- PHOTO-FINISH intentées
Nearest frequency peer: intentées (-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 « intercale »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- instabilités
instabilités
25,906 corpus weight
- intentionné…
intentionnées
25,905 corpus weight
- intentées
intentées
25,904 corpus weight
- intercale
intercale
25,903 corpus weight
- intercultur…
interculturelles
25,902 corpus weight
- interjeter
interjeter
25,901 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « intercale » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | intercale |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \ɛ̃.tɛʁ.kal\ |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #74,098 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « intercale » en français
Rare enough to double-check
intercale is uncommon French at frequency #74,098 among 3,561 “I” headwords, classed as averb, transcribed \ɛ̃.tɛʁ.kal\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 5 senses are on record.
Zero misspellings are on record for intercale in our index, typically a sign the spelling maps closely to how the word sounds. No confusable counterpart is on file for this word, which typically means the spelling is too distinctive to be mistaken for another word.
This entry carries no recorded etymology, so any spelling logic here comes from how the word's sounds map to letters, not a documented origin story. The correct French form is intercale, spelled I-N-T-E-R-C-A-L-E.
Definition
- 1Première personne du singulier du présent de l’indicatif de intercaler.
- 2Troisième personne du singulier du présent de l’indicatif de intercaler.
- 3Première personne du singulier du présent du subjonctif de intercaler.
- 4Troisième personne du singulier du présent du subjonctif de intercaler.
- 5Deuxième personne du singulier de l’impératif de intercaler.
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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