intermèdes
\ɛ̃.tɛʁ.mɛd\
The verdict
“intermèdes” is uncommon French (frequency #67,611 among 3,561 “I” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #67,611
- frequency rank, French
- 3,561
- “I” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Pluriel de intermède.
Corpus desk
Index FR-intermedes · intermèdes · French
intermèdes · rank #67,611 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #67,611
- LEN-MEGA 10 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,561
- PHOTO-FINISH intergouverne…
Nearest frequency peer: intergouvernementales (-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 « intermèdes »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- intensifiée
intensifiée
32,392 corpus weight
- intergouver…
intergouvernementales
32,391 corpus weight
- intermèdes
intermèdes
32,390 corpus weight
- interstitie…
interstitielle
32,389 corpus weight
- intégrait
intégrait
32,388 corpus weight
- irrecevabil…
irrecevabilité
32,387 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « intermèdes » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | intermèdes |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ɛ̃.tɛʁ.mɛd\ |
| Letters | 10 |
| Frequency rank | #67,611 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « intermèdes » en français
Rare enough to double-check
intermèdes is uncommon French at frequency #67,611 among 3,561 “I” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \ɛ̃.tɛʁ.mɛd\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Pluriel de intermède.".
We couldn't generate a plausible misspelling set for intermèdes, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. Our confusable-pair dataset has no match for it, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
No documented word history exists for this headword, so its spelling is easiest explained by how it's pronounced rather than where it came from. The correct French form is intermèdes, spelled I-N-T-E-R-M-È-D-E-S.
Definition
- 1Pluriel de intermède.
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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