intimité
\ɛ̃.ti.mi.te\
The verdict
“intimité” has 12 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #7,452. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #7,452
- frequency rank, French
- 3,561
- “I” headwords
- 12
- tracked misspellings
- 8
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Qualité de ce qui est intime, a vocation à rester privé et protégé des atteintes extérieures.
Corpus desk
Index FR-intimite · intimité · French
intimité · rank #7,452 · 12 variants · 8 confusables
- FREQ-COMMON #7,452
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 8 pairs
- VAR-MID 12 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,561
- PHOTO-FINISH injection
Nearest frequency peer: injection (-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 « intimité »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- impériale
impériale
92,551 corpus weight
- injection
injection
92,550 corpus weight
- intimité
intimité
92,549 corpus weight
- isolement
isolement
92,548 corpus weight
- jersey
jersey
92,547 corpus weight
- Kelly
Kelly
92,546 corpus weight
What this shows « intimité » 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 | intimité |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ɛ̃.ti.mi.te\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #7,452 |
| Misspellings tracked | 12 |
| Confusable pairs | 8 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « intimité »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 12 spelling variants around intimité (IPA \ɛ̃.ti.mi.te\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #7,452 among 3,561 “I” headwords. Wiktionary lists 3 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 12 likely wrong-spelling variants for intimité, with forms such as "initmité", "inntimité", and "intiimté". Each variant is a distinct typo pattern an edit-distance generator flags, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution. It also participates in 8 confusable-pair relationships, "inutilité", "intime", "illimité", and more, a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.
This entry carries no recorded etymology, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct French form is intimité, spelled I-N-T-I-M-I-T-É.
Definition
- 1Qualité de ce qui est intime, a vocation à rester privé et protégé des atteintes extérieures.
- 2Caractère de confiance réciproque des relations sociales.
- 3(En particulier) Partie généralement cachée de l’anatomie d’un individu, notamment les parties génitales.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how intimité appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
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Une intimité est violée et, à son tour, l’intimité constituée par le partage des expériences de la vie quotidienne, la reproduction des conditions de dépendance propres au rapport avec l’objet primaire, tend à faire baisser ultérieurement les défenses et à prédisposer à une attitude ouverte aux invasions.
Antonyms
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- initmité
- inntimité
- intiimté
- intimite
- intimitté
- intimiét
- intimmité
- intimtié
- intmiité
- inttimité
- itnimité
- nitimité
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of intimité - 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
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Same letter count
Frequency-ranked French headwords with 8 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (12 here; floor ≥5).