intermittences
\ɛ̃.tɛʁ.mi.tɑ̃s\
The verdict
“intermittences” is uncommon French (frequency #99,229 among 3,561 “I” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #99,229
- frequency rank, French
- 3,561
- “I” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Pluriel de intermittence.
Corpus desk
Index FR-intermittences · intermittences · French
intermittences · rank #99,229 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #99,229
- LEN-MEGA 14 letters
- VOW-5 5 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,561
- PHOTO-FINISH intercontinen…
Nearest frequency peer: intercontinentale (-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 « intermittences »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- insidieuses
insidieuses
776 corpus weight
- instrumenta…
instrumentalisent
775 corpus weight
- interagi
interagi
774 corpus weight
- intercontin…
intercontinentale
773 corpus weight
- intermitten…
intermittences
772 corpus weight
- intertropic…
intertropicale
770 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « intermittences » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | intermittences |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ɛ̃.tɛʁ.mi.tɑ̃s\ |
| Letters | 14 |
| Frequency rank | #99,229 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « intermittences » en français
Rare enough to double-check
intermittences is uncommon French at frequency #99,229 among 3,561 “I” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \ɛ̃.tɛʁ.mi.tɑ̃s\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Pluriel de intermittence.".
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for intermittences, 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 typically means the spelling is too distinctive to be mistaken for another word.
No borrowing history is documented for this entry, 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 intermittences, spelled I-N-T-E-R-M-I-T-T-E-N-C-E-S.
Definition
- 1Pluriel de intermittence.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how intermittences appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Le récit du roman proustien met en scène une conscience qui découvre peu à peu des périodes d’absences , d’intermittences qui échappent à son contrôle.
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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