intriquer
\ɛ̃.tʁi.ke\
The verdict
“intriquer” is uncommon French (outside the top frequency list), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency French
- 9
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Définition manquante ou à compléter. (Ajouter)
Corpus desk
Index FR-intriquer · intriquer · French
intriquer · unranked · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-UNRANKED Unranked
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-4 4 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 | intriquer |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \ɛ̃.tʁi.ke\ |
| Letters | 9 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « intriquer » en français
Rare enough to double-check
intriquer is uncommon French outside the top frequency list, classed as averb, transcribed \ɛ̃.tʁi.ke\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 4 senses are on record.
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for intriquer, a straightforward case of a spelling with little room for common typos. Our dataset records no confusable match here, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
Our source data has no etymology on file for this entry, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct French form is intriquer, spelled I-N-T-R-I-Q-U-E-R.
Definition
- 1Définition manquante ou à compléter. (Ajouter)
- 2Disposer en croisant et recroisant.
- 3Mêler de façon embrouillée.
- 4Relier l’état de deux particules en les rendant inséparables sur le plan quantique, bien que les deux particules puissent être spatialement séparées.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how intriquer appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Partout, la silva parcourue par les hommes et par les bêtes « était intriquée' à la forêt sauvage comme les bois familiers s'intriquent dans les champs ».
Fibres intriquées.
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.