intrus
\ɛ̃.tʁy\
The verdict
“intrus” has 9 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #20,474. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #20,474
- frequency rank, French
- 3,561
- “I” headwords
- 9
- tracked misspellings
- 6
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Introduit, contre le droit, dans quelque dignité ecclésiastique.
Corpus desk
Index FR-intrus · intrus · French
intrus · rank #20,474 · 9 variants · 6 confusables
- FREQ-MID #20,474
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 6 pairs
- VAR-MID 9 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,561
- PHOTO-FINISH interdictions
Nearest frequency peer: interdictions (-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 « intrus »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- Insomnie
Insomnie
79,530 corpus weight
- instructif
instructif
79,529 corpus weight
- interdictio…
interdictions
79,528 corpus weight
- intrus
intrus
79,527 corpus weight
- investie
investie
79,526 corpus weight
- Ivoirienne
Ivoirienne
79,525 corpus weight
What this shows « intrus » 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 | intrus |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | \ɛ̃.tʁy\ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #20,474 |
| Misspellings tracked | 9 |
| Confusable pairs | 6 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « intrus »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 9 spelling variants around intrus (IPA \ɛ̃.tʁy\), anadjective. Corpus frequency is #20,474 among 3,561 “I” headwords. Wiktionary lists 3 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 9 likely wrong-spelling variants for intrus, with forms such as "inntrus", "inrtus", and "intrrus". Every one of these variants traces to a single-character edit -- an added or dropped letter, a swapped consonant, or a vowel swap -- the kind of slip a spell-checker is built to catch. It also participates in 6 confusable-pair relationships, "Istres", "intra", "intro", and more, since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so any spelling logic here comes from how the word's sounds map to letters, not a documented origin story. The correct French form is intrus, spelled I-N-T-R-U-S.
Definition
- 1Introduit, contre le droit, dans quelque dignité ecclésiastique.
- 2Introduit illégitimement dans quelque fonction que ce soit.
- 3Qui n’est pas à sa place, et dont la présence peut déranger.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how intrus appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Un prêtre, évêque intrus, une abbesse intruse, nom donné, durant la Révolution française, aux ecclésiastiques assermentés ou constitutionnels, c’est-à-dire qui avaient prêté serment à la constitution civile du clergé.
Si vous êtes intrus dans le lieu saint.
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- inntrus
- inrtus
- intrrus
- intrsu
- intruss
- inttrus
- inturs
- itnrus
- nitrus
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of intrus - measured in single-character edits (insert, delete, or substitute a letter). Larger bars are easier to catch; one-edit slips are the sneakiest.
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 "intrus", not the corpus desk frequency band.
Same letter count
Frequency-ranked French headwords with 6 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (9 here; floor ≥5).