intransmissible
\ɛ̃.tʁɑ̃s.mi.sibl\
The verdict
“intransmissible” is uncommon French (outside the top frequency list), classed as an adjective. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency French
- 15
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Qui ne peut être transmis.
Corpus desk
Index FR-intransmissible · intransmissible · French
intransmissible · unranked · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-UNRANKED Unranked
- LEN-MEGA 15 letters
- VOW-5 5 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-THIN "I" thin
- PHOTO-UNK Peer pending
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.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | intransmissible |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | \ɛ̃.tʁɑ̃s.mi.sibl\ |
| Letters | 15 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
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Rare enough to double-check
intransmissible is uncommon French outside the top frequency list, classed as anadjective, transcribed \ɛ̃.tʁɑ̃s.mi.sibl\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Qui ne peut être transmis.".
No misspelling variants are generated for intransmissible in our index, which points to an orthography that plays by predictable French rules. Our confusable-pair dataset has no match for it, a sign it's visually distinctive enough not to be mixed up with another word.
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 intransmissible, spelled I-N-T-R-A-N-S-M-I-S-S-I-B-L-E.
Definition
- 1Qui ne peut être transmis.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how intransmissible appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
28 mai 1941 – Finalement, je crois que la poésie est d’une époque, ou d’une civilisation et qu’elle est intransmissible. J’aime mieux Rutebeuf qu’un Nô japonais, même écrit au XXe siècle.
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Definitions, pronunciation, and etymology for this entry are drawn from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org structured extract (CC BY-SA). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.