intrusive
\ɛ̃.tʁy.ziv\
The verdict
“intrusive” is uncommon French (frequency #62,377 among 3,561 “I” headwords), classed as an adjective. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #62,377
- frequency rank, French
- 3,561
- “I” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Féminin singulier de intrusif.
Corpus desk
Index FR-intrusive · intrusive · French
intrusive · rank #62,377 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #62,377
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,561
- PHOTO-FINISH interrégional
Nearest frequency peer: interrégional (-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 « intrusive »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
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interesting
37,627 corpus weight
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37,626 corpus weight
- interrégion…
interrégional
37,625 corpus weight
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37,624 corpus weight
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37,623 corpus weight
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37,622 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « intrusive » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | intrusive |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | \ɛ̃.tʁy.ziv\ |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #62,377 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « intrusive » en français
Rare enough to double-check
intrusive is uncommon French at frequency #62,377 among 3,561 “I” headwords, classed as anadjective, transcribed \ɛ̃.tʁy.ziv\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Féminin singulier de intrusif.".
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for intrusive, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. This entry stands alone in our confusable dataset, which typically means the spelling is too distinctive to be mistaken for another word.
No documented word history exists for this headword, so its spelling is easiest explained by how it's pronounced rather than where it came from. The correct French form is intrusive, spelled I-N-T-R-U-S-I-V-E.
Definition
- 1Féminin singulier de intrusif.
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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