intox
\ɛ̃.tɔks\
The verdict
“intox” has 7 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #25,700. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #25,700
- frequency rank, French
- 3,561
- “I” headwords
- 7
- tracked misspellings
- 11
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Matraquage idéologique qui cherche à prendre possession des esprits.
Corpus desk
Index FR-intox · intox · French
intox · rank #25,700 · 7 variants · 11 confusables
- FREQ-MID #25,700
- LEN-MID 5 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 11 pairs
- VAR-MID 7 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,561
- PHOTO-FINISH intouchables
Nearest frequency peer: intouchables (-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 « intox »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- ins
ins
74,306 corpus weight
- instituteurs
instituteurs
74,305 corpus weight
- intouchables
intouchables
74,302 corpus weight
- intox
intox
74,301 corpus weight
- iraient
iraient
74,298 corpus weight
- Iraq
Iraq
74,297 corpus weight
What this shows « intox » 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 | intox |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ɛ̃.tɔks\ |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #25,700 |
| Misspellings tracked | 7 |
| Confusable pairs | 11 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « intox »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 7 spelling variants around intox (IPA \ɛ̃.tɔks\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #25,700 among 3,561 “I” headwords. Wiktionary lists 2 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 7 likely wrong-spelling variants for intox, with forms such as "inntox", "inotx", and "intoxx". 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 11 confusable-pair relationships, "ito", "intra", "intro", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
No documented word history exists for this headword, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct French form is intox, spelled I-N-T-O-X.
Definition
- 1Matraquage idéologique qui cherche à prendre possession des esprits.
- 2Fausse information délivrée en connaissance de cause.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how intox appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Le fascisme que vous portez à l'écran a deux visages. Celui, spectaculaire, des parades (…). Et sa face cachée : le fascisme quotidien, celui qui imprègne les mentalités et les habitudes. Ettore Scola − C'est cela justement qui m'intéressait : « l’intox », la violence qui s'attaque aux sentiments.
La déconstruction, à certains égards, aurait pu faire le lit de la falsification. Au demeurant, les croupiers d’élections yankees n'ont pas attendu Derrida pour faire de l’intox.
Synonyms
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- inntox
- inotx
- intoxx
- inttox
- intxo
- itnox
- nitox
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of intox - 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 5 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (7 here; floor ≥5).