intercalés
\ɛ̃.tɛʁ.ka.le\
The verdict
“intercalés” is uncommon French (frequency #94,920 among 3,561 “I” headwords), classed as an adjective. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #94,920
- frequency rank, French
- 3,561
- “I” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Masculin pluriel de intercalé.
Corpus desk
Index FR-intercales · intercalés · French
intercalés · rank #94,920 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #94,920
- LEN-MEGA 10 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,561
- PHOTO-FINISH inspired
Nearest frequency peer: inspired (-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 « intercalés »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- inhospitali…
inhospitalières
5,084 corpus weight
- injustifiab…
injustifiables
5,083 corpus weight
- inspired
inspired
5,082 corpus weight
- intercalés
intercalés
5,081 corpus weight
- interdépart…
interdépartemental
5,080 corpus weight
- interrogate…
interrogateurs
5,079 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « intercalés » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | intercalés |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | \ɛ̃.tɛʁ.ka.le\ |
| Letters | 10 |
| Frequency rank | #94,920 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « intercalés » en français
Rare enough to double-check
intercalés is uncommon French at frequency #94,920 among 3,561 “I” headwords, classed as anadjective, transcribed \ɛ̃.tɛʁ.ka.le\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Masculin pluriel de intercalé.".
intercalés doesn't appear in our generated misspelling index, since its letter pattern doesn't lend itself to common typo substitutions. No confusable counterpart is on file for this word, which typically means the spelling is too distinctive to be mistaken for another word.
No documented word history exists for this headword, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct French form is intercalés, spelled I-N-T-E-R-C-A-L-É-S.
Definition
- 1Masculin pluriel de intercalé.
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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