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“intercommunalité” and “intercommunalités” are a confusable French pair: similar on the page, but distinct in meaning, check the gloss before you choose.

#29,825
“intercommunalité” frequency rank
#31,558
“intercommunalités” frequency rank
61383
confusion score

Side-by-Side Comparison

Feature intercommunalité intercommunalités
Definition Établissement public de coopération intercommunale (EPCI), par exemple une communauté de communes. Pluriel de intercommunalité.

Same sound, different letters: intercommunalité vs intercommunalités

Muted letters are shared; highlighted letters are the only spelling cue when pronunciation matches. Shared run: 16 letters. intercommunalité runs 16 letters (VCCVCCVCCVCVCVCV) against intercommunalités's 17 (VCCVCCVCCVCVCVCVC) - the length gap alone is often enough to separate them once you know to check it.

16 ch
intercommunalité
17 ch
intercommunalités

Homophone desk: intercommunalité vs intercommunalités

This is the hard kind. intercommunalité and intercommunalités are pronounced identically (\ɛ̃.tɛʁ.kɔ.my.na.li.te\) and both work as anoun. 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) - “intercommunalité” sits inside “intercommunalités”. Our composite confusion score for this pair is 61383, derived from the frequency rank of both members and their visual similarity.

intercommunalité is recorded at frequency rank #29,825, classified as anoun, pronounced \ɛ̃.tɛʁ.kɔ.my.na.li.te\. intercommunalités is at rank #31,558, tagged as anoun, pronounced \ɛ̃.tɛʁ.kɔ.my.na.li.te\.

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 61383, this pair ranks #92,574 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs - among the most confusable pairs.

Orthographic DNA of intercommunalité vs intercommunalités

Shared letters: aceilmnortué. Private to "intercommunalité": -. Private to "intercommunalités": s.

"intercommunalité" · 16 letters · shape VCCVCCVCCVCVCVCV  ·  "intercommunalités" · 17 letters · shape VCCVCCVCCVCVCVCVC

Frequently Asked Questions

Can "intercommunalité" and "intercommunalités" be used interchangeably?
No. They are pronounced the same (\ɛ̃.tɛʁ.kɔ.my.na.li.te\), which is exactly why they get swapped in writing, but the dictionary meanings above are different, and pronunciation is no guide here.
Which is more common, "intercommunalité" or "intercommunalités"?
"intercommunalité" is the more common of the two: it sits at frequency rank #29,825 in our French list, against #31,558 for "intercommunalités". The two are close in frequency, so neither is a safe default; check the meaning rather than guessing.

After this comparison

"intercommunalité" and "intercommunalités" share a sound, keep the gloss open, then jump to the headword or a nearby trap.

  • Full dictionary entry for "intercommunalité" with definition, IPA, and generated misspellings. Word entry
  • Full dictionary entry for "intercommunalités" - compare definitions side by side with the headword page. Word entry
  • This pair ranks #92,574 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs in this corpus vintage. Corpus statistics
  • "intercommunalité" and "intercommunalités" also get mixed up with nearby pairs, the highest-scored neighbour is "intercommunale vs intercommunalité". Nearby pair

Confusion rank #92,574 of 440,172 scored French pairs, corpus vintage 2026-09-03, not spelling advice.

Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org) Structured Wiktionary extract

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list