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say it: IN-tuh-lekt
intellect is a noun meaning "knowledge and intellectual ability". It carries 3 recorded senses.
knowledge and intellectual ability
“he reads to improve his mind”
“he has a keen intellect”
the capacity for rational thought or inference or discrimination
“we are told that man is endowed with reason and capable of distinguishing good from evil”
a person who uses the mind creatively
Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.
Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for intellect come from Princeton University’s WordNet. The pronunciation comes from the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.