intime
Letters
6 characters
Frequency Rank
#5,469
in French word usage
Misspellings
8
tracked variants
Confusables
16
similar word pairs
intime is anFrenchadj. It means: Profondément intérieur, en parlant surtout de ce qui fait l’essence réelle d’une chose. Pronounced \ɛ̃.tim\. It ranks #5,469 in French word frequency. Often confused with invite and isthme.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | intime |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adj |
| IPA | \ɛ̃.tim\ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #5,469 |
| Misspellings tracked | 8 |
| Confusable pairs | 16 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for intime is 6 letters long, classified as anadj, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \ɛ̃.tim\. Corpus data places it at rank #5,469 in overall French word frequency, indicating it appears regularly in written and spoken text.Wiktionary records 4 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 8 documented wrong-spelling variants for intime, with forms such as "initme", "inntime", and "intiem". Each variant represents a distinct typo pattern that appears often enough in corpora to be worth flagging, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution.It also participates in 16 confusable-pair relationships, "invite", "isthme", "inutile", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
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 intime, spelled I-N-T-I-M-E, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Profondément intérieur, en parlant surtout de ce qui fait l’essence réelle d’une chose.
- 2Qui lie étroitement certaines choses entre elles.
- 3Qualifie une amitié, un attachement réciproque, qui est spécialement proche, authentique ou confiant.
- 4Qui a et pour qui l’on a une affection profonde, de qui l'on se sent particulièrement proche.
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Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: initme,inntime,intiem,intimme,intmie,inttime,itnime,nitime
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
Relative frequency of common misspelling types for intime
Misspelling Variants of "intime"
Frequency rank: #5,469 in French
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