intrusif
\ɛ̃.tʁy.zif\
The verdict
“intrusif” is uncommon French (frequency #54,043 among 3,561 “I” headwords), classed as an adjective. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #54,043
- frequency rank, French
- 3,561
- “I” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Qui s’introduit de manière non souhaitée.
Corpus desk
Index FR-intrusif · intrusif · French
intrusif · rank #54,043 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #54,043
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,561
- PHOTO-FINISH intitulées
Nearest frequency peer: intitulées (-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 « intrusif »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- interperson…
interpersonnelles
45,961 corpus weight
- interstices
interstices
45,960 corpus weight
- intitulées
intitulées
45,959 corpus weight
- intrusif
intrusif
45,958 corpus weight
- invalidée
invalidée
45,957 corpus weight
- ivoiriennes
ivoiriennes
45,955 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « intrusif » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | intrusif |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | \ɛ̃.tʁy.zif\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #54,043 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « intrusif » en français
Rare enough to double-check
intrusif is uncommon French at frequency #54,043 among 3,561 “I” headwords, classed as anadjective, transcribed \ɛ̃.tʁy.zif\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 3 senses are on record.
Zero misspellings are on record for intrusif in our index, which points to an orthography that plays by predictable French rules. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, 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, 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 intrusif, spelled I-N-T-R-U-S-I-F.
Definition
- 1Qui s’introduit de manière non souhaitée.
- 2Qui a pénétré dans une formation déjà constituée.
- 3Qui a tendance à se mêler des affaires des autres.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how intrusif appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Trop intrusif pour la vie privée ? Linky va collecter un grand nombre de données sur les foyers pour savoir comment adapter notre consommation en fonction des appareils branchés par exemple.
Par ailleurs, les outils de surveillance hautement intrusifs, comme le logiciel Pegasus, qui sont incompatibles avec les droits humains, doivent eux être interdits.
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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Frequency-ranked French headwords with 8 letters (nearest by frequency rank).