intestin grêle
\ɛ̃.tɛs.tɛ̃ ɡʁɛl\
The verdict
“intestin grêle” is outside the top-ranked French vocabulary, used as a noun - the kind of word writers most often double-check.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency French
- 14
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) — Partie de l’appareil digestif située entre l’estomac et le gros intestin.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | intestin grêle |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ɛ̃.tɛs.tɛ̃ ɡʁɛl\ |
| Letters | 14 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “intestin grêle” sits in French frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for intestin grêle is 14 letters long, classified as a noun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \ɛ̃.tɛs.tɛ̃ ɡʁɛl\. It sits outside the most-frequent rank tiers, which is often why uncommon words generate more spelling variants per reader. The dominant gloss from Wiktionary reads: "Partie de l’appareil digestif située entre l’estomac et le gros intestin.".
No misspelling variants are generated for intestin grêle in our index, suggesting the orthography follows predictable French patterns. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. For readers arriving here from a spelling check, the authoritative guidance is: the correct French form is intestin grêle, spelled I-N-T-E-S-T-I-N- -G-R-Ê-L-E, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Partie de l’appareil digestif située entre l’estomac et le gros intestin.
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- The one correct French spelling is I-N-T-E-S-T-I-N- -G-R-Ê-L-E - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
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