intrication
\ɛ̃.tʁi.ka.sjɔ̃\
The verdict
“intrication” is uncommon French (frequency #74,104 among 3,561 “I” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #74,104
- frequency rank, French
- 3,561
- “I” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - État de ce qui est enchevêtré.
Corpus desk
Index FR-intrication · intrication · French
intrication · rank #74,104 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #74,104
- LEN-MEGA 11 letters
- VOW-5 5 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,561
- PHOTO-FINISH inutilisées
Nearest frequency peer: inutilisées (+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.
Rangs de longue queue près de « intrication »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- interjeter
interjeter
25,901 corpus weight
- interpelé
interpelé
25,900 corpus weight
- interpositi…
interposition
25,899 corpus weight
- intrication
intrication
25,897 corpus weight
- inutilisées
inutilisées
25,896 corpus weight
- inénarrable
inénarrable
25,894 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « intrication » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | intrication |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ɛ̃.tʁi.ka.sjɔ̃\ |
| Letters | 11 |
| Frequency rank | #74,104 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « intrication » en français
Rare enough to double-check
intrication is uncommon French at frequency #74,104 among 3,561 “I” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \ɛ̃.tʁi.ka.sjɔ̃\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
Zero misspellings are on record for intrication in our index, which points to an orthography that plays by predictable French rules. Our dataset records no confusable match here, since no other headword is close enough in sound or shape to pair with it.
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. The correct French form is intrication, spelled I-N-T-R-I-C-A-T-I-O-N.
Definition
- 1État de ce qui est enchevêtré.
- 2Phénomène par lequel un état de deux particules est inséparable, bien que les deux particules puissent être spatialement séparées. intrication quantique.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how intrication appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
[…], l'association à Limnanthemum ne saurait être étroitement délimitée car elle présente des intrications avec les groupements ripicoles sur sa marge externe et, sur sa marge interne, avec des associations flottantes […].
Il faut reconnaître que les fréquentes intrications des groupements ripuaires en compliquent singulièrement l’étude sur le terrain et que seule une analyse très attentive de leur cortège floristique permet d’en dégager les groupes éco-sociologiques constitutifs.
This word in other languages
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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