intermittence

\ɛ̃.tɛʁ.mi.tɑ̃s\

/\ɛ̃.tɛʁ.mi.tɑ̃s\/ noun

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The verdict

“intermittence” has 18 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #28,609. The variants make it a useful spelling check.

#28,609
frequency rank, French
3,561
“I” headwords
18
tracked misspellings
3
confusable pairs

According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Sporadicité ; qualité de ce qui est intermittent.

Corpus desk

Index FR-intermittence · intermittence · French

intermittence · rank #28,609 · 18 variants · 3 confusables

  • FREQ-MID #28,609
  • LEN-MEGA 13 letters
  • VOW-5 5 vowels
  • CONFUS-LOW 3 pairs
  • VAR-HIGH 18 variants
  • BOOK-MID 3,561
  • PHOTO-FINISH instrumental

Nearest frequency peer: instrumental (-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 « intermittence »

Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin

corpus weight

What this shows « intermittence » siège parmi ces pairs FrequencyWords; la profondeur des fautes est suivie à part dans le graphique d'édition.

Source FrequencyWords open word-frequency list As of September 3, 2026

Visual similarity to commonly confused words

How many letter changes separate each confused pair (Levenshtein distance, normalized).

intermittence vs intermittent
85% similar
intermittence vs intermittents
85% similar
intermittence vs intermittente
92% similar

Source: PlainSpell confusable corpus (Wiktionary, CC BY-SA).

Key facts for intermittence
PropertyValue
Headwordintermittence
LanguageFrench
Part of speechNoun
IPA\ɛ̃.tɛʁ.mi.tɑ̃s\
Letters13
Frequency rank#28,609
Misspellings tracked18
Confusable pairs3
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « intermittence »

Cette échelle va du noyau du français courant (gauche) jusqu'à la traîne des formes rares (droite).intermittencese place ici:

#1#100#1K#10K#100K
← used constantlyrarely used →

Les tics avancent en logarithme; chacun est de l'ordre de dix fois plus rare. Dans la même bande de rareté figurent « instrumental » (#28,608), « inutilité » (#28,610), « instituée » (#28,607). Parmi 3,561 lemmes en « I », « intermittence » est au #28,609. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

A misspelling magnet

The generator records 18 spelling variants around intermittence (IPA \ɛ̃.tɛʁ.mi.tɑ̃s\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #28,609 among 3,561 “I” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Sporadicité ; qualité de ce qui est intermittent.".

Our generated misspelling index lists 18 likely wrong-spelling variants for intermittence, with forms such as "inetrmittence", "inntermittence", and "intemrittence". 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 3 confusable-pair relationships, "intermittent", "intermittents", "intermittente", since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.

No borrowing history is documented 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 intermittence, spelled I-N-T-E-R-M-I-T-T-E-N-C-E.

Definition

  1. 1
    Sporadicité ; qualité de ce qui est intermittent.

Recorded use

Wiktionary examples

These source excerpts show how intermittence appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.

  1. Freind, en parlant de Petrus Salimis, rapporte plusieurs exemples où, par l’intermittence du pouls, ce médecin prédisait certaines syncopes, dont il prévenait les paroxysmes par la saignée et par d'autres remèdes […].
  2. Une fois l’intermittence des signaux quantifiée, il est possible de séparer l’influence de cette disparition sur la fluctuation de fréquence.

This word in other languages

intermittence(English)

Common misspellings

Also misspelled as:

  • inetrmittence
  • inntermittence
  • intemrittence
  • interimttence
  • intermitence
  • intermitetnce
  • intermittecne
  • intermittencce
  • intermittenec
  • intermittennce
  • intermittnece
  • intermmittence
  • intermtitence
  • interrmittence
  • intremittence
  • inttermittence
  • itnermittence
  • nitermittence

Misspelling Pattern Breakdown

How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of intermittence - 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.

inetrmittence2inntermittence1intemrittence2interimttence2intermitence1intermitetnce2intermittecne2intermittencce1
Edit distance from "intermittence"

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.

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "intermittence"?
"intermittence" is spelled I-N-T-E-R-M-I-T-T-E-N-C-E. The IPA pronunciation is \ɛ̃.tɛʁ.mi.tɑ̃s\.
What does "intermittence" mean?
As a noun, "intermittence" means: Sporadicité ; qualité de ce qui est intermittent.
What words are commonly confused with "intermittence"?
"intermittence" is commonly confused with "intermittent", "intermittents", "intermittente". These words look or sound similar but have different meanings. PlainSpell provides detailed comparisons for each pair.
How do you pronounce "intermittence"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "intermittence" is \ɛ̃.tɛʁ.mi.tɑ̃s\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "intermittence" come from?
"intermittence" is a French word. PlainSpell's reference spans five languages -- English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, and German -- with definitions, pronunciations, and spelling data for each.
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Similar French words by spelling shape

Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "intermittence", not the corpus desk frequency band.

Same letter count

Frequency-ranked French headwords with 13 letters (nearest by frequency rank).

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Similar misspelling depth

Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (18 here; floor ≥5).

insecticides18 variantsindifférents18 variantsexpérimentée18 variantsenlèvements18 variants

Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org) Structured Wiktionary extract

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list