journal intime
\ʒuʁ.na.l‿ɛ̃.tim\
The verdict
“journal intime” is uncommon French (outside the top frequency list), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency French
- 14
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Écrit élaboré au fil du temps rapportant les sentiments, les pensées et les aventures de son auteur.
Corpus desk
Index FR-journal-intime · journal intime · French
journal intime · unranked · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-UNRANKED Unranked
- LEN-MEGA 14 letters
- VOW-6 6 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-THIN "J" 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 | journal intime |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ʒuʁ.na.l‿ɛ̃.tim\ |
| Letters | 14 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
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Rare enough to double-check
journal intime is uncommon French outside the top frequency list, classed as anoun, transcribed \ʒuʁ.na.l‿ɛ̃.tim\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Écrit élaboré au fil du temps rapportant les sentiments, les pensées et les aventures de son auteur.".
Zero misspellings are on record for journal intime in our index, typically a sign the spelling maps closely to how the word sounds. No confusable counterpart is on file for this word, which typically means the spelling is too distinctive to be mistaken for another word.
This entry carries no recorded etymology, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct French form is journal intime, spelled J-O-U-R-N-A-L- -I-N-T-I-M-E.
Definition
- 1Écrit élaboré au fil du temps rapportant les sentiments, les pensées et les aventures de son auteur.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how journal intime appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Un petit agenda portant pour titre : Cahier de Problèmes et où, en pleine mathématique, un journal intime écrit au crayon à contresens de l’écriture des devoirs, un journal des plus riches en points d’exclamation, en phrases raturées, en lignes de points sous lesquels se dissimulent des pensées qui rougissent pudiquement de se formuler, et encore semé, à…
Le journal intime de Benjamin Constant nous reste comme une monographie étonnamment minutieuse de la frénésie que peut produire la lucidité dans l’amour, la manie de se sentir sentir.
This word in other languages
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