intolérance
\ɛ̃.tɔ.le.ʁɑ̃s\
The verdict
“intolérance” has 17 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #14,710. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #14,710
- frequency rank, French
- 3,561
- “I” headwords
- 17
- tracked misspellings
- 3
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Défaut de tolérance, disposition à violenter, à persécuter ceux avec lesquels on diffère d’opinions ou de culture.
Corpus desk
Index FR-intolerance · intolérance · French
intolérance · rank #14,710 · 17 variants · 3 confusables
- FREQ-MID #14,710
- LEN-MEGA 11 letters
- VOW-5 5 vowels
- CONFUS-LOW 3 pairs
- VAR-HIGH 17 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,561
- PHOTO-FINISH interrompue
Nearest frequency peer: interrompue (-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 « intolérance »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- inquiets
inquiets
85,294 corpus weight
- intellectue…
intellectuelles
85,293 corpus weight
- interrompue
interrompue
85,292 corpus weight
- intolérance
intolérance
85,291 corpus weight
- inverser
inverser
85,290 corpus weight
- irlandaise
irlandaise
85,289 corpus weight
What this shows « intolérance » 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 | intolérance |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ɛ̃.tɔ.le.ʁɑ̃s\ |
| Letters | 11 |
| Frequency rank | #14,710 |
| Misspellings tracked | 17 |
| Confusable pairs | 3 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « intolérance »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 17 spelling variants around intolérance (IPA \ɛ̃.tɔ.le.ʁɑ̃s\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #14,710 among 3,561 “I” headwords. Wiktionary lists 2 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 17 likely wrong-spelling variants for intolérance, with forms such as "inntolérance", "inotlérance", and "intloérance". Every one of these variants traces to a single-character edit -- an added or dropped letter, a swapped consonant, or a vowel swap -- the kind of slip a spell-checker is built to catch. It also participates in 3 confusable-pair relationships, "intolérant", "intolérants", "intolérable", a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.
This entry carries no recorded etymology, 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 intolérance, spelled I-N-T-O-L-É-R-A-N-C-E.
Definition
- 1Défaut de tolérance, disposition à violenter, à persécuter ceux avec lesquels on diffère d’opinions ou de culture.
- 2Inaptitude de l’estomac à digérer tel ou tel aliment, tel ou tel remède.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how intolérance appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Il est certain que l’anéantissement de la Société peut procurer à la raison de grands avantages, pourvu que l’intolérance jansénienne ne succède pas en crédit à l’intolérance jésuitique ; […].
[…] elle n’a conservé de la mère patrie que ses mœurs hospitalières, son intolérance religieuse, ses moines, ses guittareros et ses mendiants armés d’escopettes.
Antonyms
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- inntolérance
- inotlérance
- intloérance
- intolerance
- intollérance
- intolréance
- intoléarnce
- intoléracne
- intolérancce
- intoléranec
- intolérannce
- intolérnace
- intolérrance
- intoélrance
- inttolérance
- itnolérance
- nitolérance
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of intolérance - counted as single-character edits (an insertion, a deletion, or a substituted letter). The larger the bar, the easier the typo is to spot; one-edit slips are the ones that sneak past readers.
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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Same letter count
Frequency-ranked French headwords with 11 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
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