Which to use
“intact” and “intacte” are a confusable French pair: similar on the page, but distinct in meaning, check the gloss before you choose.
- #15,655
- “intact” frequency rank
- #16,157
- “intacte” frequency rank
- 31812
- confusion score
Side-by-Side Comparison
| Feature | intact | intacte |
|---|---|---|
| Definition | À quoi l’on n’a pas touché, dont on n’a rien retranché. | Féminin singulier de intact. |
Same sound, different letters: intact vs intacte
Muted letters are shared; highlighted letters are the only spelling cue when pronunciation matches. Shared run: 6 letters. intact runs 6 letters (VCCVCC) against intacte's 7 (VCCVCCV) - the length gap alone is often enough to separate them once you know to check it.
Same sound, different spelling - intact / intacte
This is the hard kind. intact and intacte are pronounced identically (\ɛ̃.takt\) and both work as anadjective. Neither the ear nor the grammar will rescue you; only the meaning does, so the glosses below are the whole decision. They differ by 1 extra letter(s) - “intact” sits inside “intacte”. Our composite confusion score for this pair is 31812, derived from the frequency rank of both members and their visual similarity.
intact is recorded at frequency rank #15,655, classified as anadj, pronounced \ɛ̃.takt\. intacte is at rank #16,157, tagged as anadj, pronounced \ɛ̃.takt\.
Glosses for this pair are partially populated in our dataset, but the full side-by-side definitions above should still guide you to the right choice.
With a confusion score of 31812, this pair ranks #301,394 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs - roughly mid-pack for confusability.
Orthographic DNA of intact vs intacte
Shared letters: acint. Private to "intact": -. Private to "intacte": e.
"intact" · 6 letters · shape VCCVCC · "intacte" · 7 letters · shape VCCVCCV
Known mistypes of this pair
Frequently Asked Questions
Do "intact" and "intacte" mean the same thing in a sentence?
In ordinary French text, does "intact" or "intacte" show up more?
Useful next steps
You've separated the homophone pair "intact" / "intacte". Follow the links when you need the full entry or a neighbour that trips the same ear.
- Full dictionary entry for "intact" with definition, IPA, and generated misspellings. Word entry
- Full dictionary entry for "intacte" - compare definitions side by side with the headword page. Word entry
- This pair ranks #301,394 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs in this corpus vintage. Corpus statistics
- "intact" and "intacte" also get mixed up with nearby pairs, the highest-scored neighbour is "inexacte vs intacte". Nearby pair
- Recorded mistypes exist for at least one side of this pair, useful when a spell-checker or OCR lands on the wrong form. See mistypes
Confusion rank #301,394 of 440,172 scored French pairs, corpus vintage 2026-09-03, not spelling advice.