Select the word that is spelled INCORRECTLY.

Concept

Spelling-error questions test whether you can recognise the standard dictionary spelling of a word. The task is to scan each option letter by letter, compare it with the word's accepted form, and pick the one that deviates from it. A spelling is wrong when a letter is missing, added, swapped, or transposed.

Application

Checking each word against its dictionary form:

• Intolrent is not a valid spelling. The accepted form is Intolerant (in-tol-era-nt): the standard word reads “l-e-r-a”, but the written form reads “l-r-e” — the e is misplaced (it should sit before the r) and the a is dropped.

• Intoxicate matches its dictionary form (in-tox-i-cate).

• Intricate matches its dictionary form (in-tri-cate).

• Intimate matches its dictionary form (in-ti-mate).

Cross-check

Only the form written as “Intolrent” fails to match a real English word; restoring the “e” before the “r” and adding back the “a” gives “Intolerant”. The other three are already correct, so the misspelled word is “Intolrent”.