intestines
\ɛ̃.tɛs.tin\
The verdict
“intestines” has 15 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #47,399. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #47,399
- frequency rank, French
- 3,561
- “I” headwords
- 15
- tracked misspellings
- 5
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Féminin pluriel de intestin.
Corpus desk
Index FR-intestines · intestines · French
intestines · rank #47,399 · 15 variants · 5 confusables
- FREQ-MID #47,399
- LEN-MEGA 10 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 5 pairs
- VAR-HIGH 15 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,561
- PHOTO-FINISH interposés
Nearest frequency peer: interposés (-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 « intestines »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- insensés
insensés
52,605 corpus weight
- insubordina…
insubordination
52,604 corpus weight
- interposés
interposés
52,603 corpus weight
- intestines
intestines
52,602 corpus weight
- ionisation
ionisation
52,601 corpus weight
- isolants
isolants
52,600 corpus weight
What this shows « intestines » siège parmi ces pairs FrequencyWords; la profondeur des fautes est suivie à part dans le graphique d'édition.
Visual similarity to commonly confused words
How many letter changes separate each confused pair (Levenshtein distance, normalized).
Source: PlainSpell confusable corpus (Wiktionary, CC BY-SA).
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | intestines |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | \ɛ̃.tɛs.tin\ |
| Letters | 10 |
| Frequency rank | #47,399 |
| Misspellings tracked | 15 |
| Confusable pairs | 5 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « intestines »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 15 spelling variants around intestines (IPA \ɛ̃.tɛs.tin\), anadjective. Corpus frequency is #47,399 among 3,561 “I” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Féminin pluriel de intestin.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 15 likely wrong-spelling variants for intestines, with forms such as "inetstines", "inntestines", and "intesitnes". Each of these forms differs from the correct spelling by one small edit: a doubled letter, a dropped silent letter, or a substituted vowel. It also participates in 5 confusable-pair relationships, "intestins", "investies", "intestin", and more, since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct French form is intestines, spelled I-N-T-E-S-T-I-N-E-S.
Definition
- 1Féminin pluriel de intestin.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how intestines appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
La loi, la seule loi, « tu ne commettras pas le crime », est invraisemblable, renversante ; et elle continue de l’être, la moins obéie ni obéissable possible : millénaires de tueries, guerres externes ou intestines ; millénaires de rituels sacrificiels ; ressort meurtrier de la Tragédie, ou scène « littéraire » de la comitragédie des mœurs modernes, avec…
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- inetstines
- inntestines
- intesitnes
- intesstines
- intestiens
- intestiness
- intestinnes
- intestinse
- intestnies
- intesttines
- intetsines
- intsetines
- inttestines
- itnestines
- nitestines
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of intestines - 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.
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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Similar French words by spelling shape
Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "intestines", not the corpus desk frequency band.
Same letter count
Frequency-ranked French headwords with 10 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (15 here; floor ≥5).