intrigue
\ɛ̃t.ʁiɡ\
The verdict
“intrigue” has 11 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #6,968. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #6,968
- frequency rank, French
- 3,561
- “I” headwords
- 11
- tracked misspellings
- 2
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Pratique secrète qu’on emploie pour faire réussir ou pour faire manquer une affaire.
Corpus desk
Index FR-intrigue · intrigue · French
intrigue · rank #6,968 · 11 variants · 2 confusables
- FREQ-COMMON #6,968
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-LOW 2 pairs
- VAR-MID 11 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,561
- PHOTO-FINISH insupportable
Nearest frequency peer: insupportable (-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 « intrigue »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- infini
infini
93,036 corpus weight
- instar
instar
93,035 corpus weight
- insupportab…
insupportable
93,034 corpus weight
- intrigue
intrigue
93,033 corpus weight
- Jessica
Jessica
93,032 corpus weight
- juridiction
juridiction
93,031 corpus weight
What this shows « intrigue » 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 | intrigue |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ɛ̃t.ʁiɡ\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #6,968 |
| Misspellings tracked | 11 |
| Confusable pairs | 2 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « intrigue »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 11 spelling variants around intrigue (IPA \ɛ̃t.ʁiɡ\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #6,968 among 3,561 “I” headwords. Wiktionary lists 3 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 11 likely wrong-spelling variants for intrigue, with forms such as "inntrigue", "inrtigue", and "intirgue". 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 2 confusable-pair relationships, "intrigues", "intriguée", since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
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 intrigue, spelled I-N-T-R-I-G-U-E.
Definition
- 1Pratique secrète qu’on emploie pour faire réussir ou pour faire manquer une affaire.
- 2Commerce secret de galanterie.
- 3Ensemble des différents incidents qui forment le nœud d’une pièce ou d'un film.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how intrigue appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
C’est un homme de talent, qui connaît la Grèce, ses ressources, ses intrigues, qui peut tirer parti des unes et faire bientôt disparaître les autres.
Des chansons et des quolibets populaires, se joignant aux intrigues de la cour, ruinèrent auprès du roi le crédit d’un homme de bien.
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- inntrigue
- inrtigue
- intirgue
- intrgiue
- intrigeu
- intriggue
- intriuge
- intrrigue
- inttrigue
- itnrigue
- nitrigue
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of intrigue - 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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Similar French words by spelling shape
Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "intrigue", not the corpus desk frequency band.
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 (11 here; floor ≥5).